The problem with Karlo was that contra good sense and the dialectics of
nature, and never mind the spectre of Malthus which is haunting Europe
today, he believed that the only thing that was separating us from abundance
was production relations, which created scarcity.
The question never arose as to whether there actually was enough gold for
all of the bathtaps, when the great unwashed come into there inheritance of
ablutions, as surely as the fact that it never rains in news from Nowhere.
The problem for me is that I am just too undisciplined for the hierarchies
of Anarkism being a Groucho Marxist more than any other kind :)
The Earth is only a common treasury for all if you put back what you take
out, even Anarchism has devasted a forest or too in all of it's writings.
What is the excuse for a non electronic journal these days?
Larry
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> Drat, I had a much better written and more extensive response to the
question asked, and
> then lost it when my email timed out!
> Yes, there are responses to disability within radical movements, though
personally I have
> often found them lacking. Either people with disabilities are just another
item on the roll
> call of the oppressed, with access issues and health care seen as "their"
main needs, or you
> have the approach where disability is seen as solely a product of
capitalism, which ignores
> the fact that impairment, ill health and aging are a natural part of being
human.
> Personally, I've been involved in the anarchist community for most of my
adult life and so
> was asked to write a piece on disability issues for Fifth Estate ("An
Anarchist Response to
> Disability," Fifth Estate, 41 (374), Winter 2007) as an introduction to
the social model and
> practices consistent with anarchism that work with it. It's nothing
earthshattering but if
> anyone is interested, email me and I will send you a copy. I don't think
Fifth Estate is
> available electronically. There are usually disability-related workshops
and activist
> meetings as part of the annual London Anarchist Bookfair
> (http://www.anarchistbookfair.org/), the largest anarchist event in
Britain. I've also written
> a chapter for an upcoming book for radical/alternative parents of kids
with special needs,
> which you can find out more about here:
http://www.shortbusbook.blogspot.com/
> And that's just me, hopefully others can hop in with what they get up to
when they're off
> being political activists and leaving their academic gowns in the office!
>
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