Hey, I'm still here! I'll return to my regular daily updating next week. To tide you over some more, check out this week's Carnival of the Vanities for more blogging goodness.

Also, Dopegirl sent a reponse to my e-mail. In the interest of balance, I thought I'd share.

Dear Ignorant Sir,

Thank you for misconstruing my point.

I wasn't implying that anarchism and socialism are one in
the same. I was trying to say that both ideologies would
employ armed revolution for their causes. Anarchism,
popularly misconceived as disorder and chaos, is a
political system based on community organization and the
dismantling of national government. No, it doesn't lead
to rampant troublemakers having 'no rules' to hold them
down. Socialism also involves the reditribution of power
to the people, but the state structure, which is reworked,
is left in place.

You seem to underestimate the power of the exploited
peoples in capitalist society. Look at the Zapatistas,
the EZLN, of Mexico. They are a peasant-based indigenous
group that's been robbed of their land and culture for the
sake of capitalist development. They are sparsely armed,
but have successfully countered the Mexican army. They
have set goals and will either achieve them or die.
Desperation fuels rebellion. The comfortable business
elite have little to no experience with exploitation or
desperation (unless it involves the accumulation of the
material possessions neccessary to portray their affluent
image).

Who do you think would win in a fight? Who ever has less
to lose. In my opinion, the exploited have the ability to
go fuckin' nuts.

A lot of anti-war skeptics don't believe that protests
will make any difference. Maybe not directly, but, if the
popular national opinion (as in Britain) is against war
and the government decides invade Iraq anyway, the true
nature of democratic society will be exposed. As more
people see the government's lack of accountability to it's
citizens, the more they will question the order of
society. And the anti-capitalist movement will grow. Are
people like you so ignorant and self-possessed to think
that capitalism is the best form of social organization?
European feudal society was eventually overturned because
it was unfair and unequal. It's only a matter of time
until capitalism realizes the same fate.

Dope*girl
(*slang for "great", as in "that's a 'dope' song")

I have to agree, once we slaughter the oppressed people with our advanced weaponry and military tactics developed by our capitalistic society, we'll probably say, "Wow, those guys went fuckin' nuts."

Have a great weekend, everyone.