Carleas, I noticed Mowk’s thread and not 12 hours later I find Peter Kropotkin saying
I have never called for those measures in relation to the Left (or the Right). So, I would ask him for an apology and for you to give him a warning if he can’t make one or at least a retraction.
He also says
when in fact I have reacted extremely harshly to people calling me a communist. And I have never called either Iamb or Peter a communist and I am quite aware of the distinctions. In fact I tend to come from the anarchist Left, and while PK is under no obligation to know anything about me I am not sure how he missed a wealth of posts on my part criticial of corporations, fiat banking, or arguing that we live in an oligarchy, that corporations have completely undermined democracy and more. In fact I take a certain pleasure in implicitly jibing some of the people on that list by referring to the corporations as the first globalists. (not exactly true, the empires were, but in the modern era I think it holds nicely) I also know from his discussions with Phyllo that Iamb is not a communist and I would have guessed PK, since he refers to a past where he was a communist as somewhere now in the ranks of the liberals, perhaps something equivalent to what in Europe is a social democrat. Though I have no idea how he classes himself now.
Possibly he is confused since I am critical of many liberal policies, but you know the old anarchist left always was, and yes, sometimes I find common ground with people on the Right, especially if they see systematic problems and are themselves also critical of the republicans. I tend to be quite critical of arguments that present the system as working fairly well-
In any case Carleas, if Peter can’t manage to apologize here how about a warning or something. My experience of PK is that he does not read posts well, and actually that bothers me more, but hey, they had to get Al Capone on tax evasion.
So, how about a warning if there is no apology or retraction. It’s an administrative gesture. It’s a bit like challenging someone for a debate. To make it public and hard to avoid.
Jeez, I don’t my wife and some of my dearest friends and myself being sent to prison. And the funny thing is, since I am calling in an authority figure to moderate PK’s terrible reading habits, I will probably be called a communist again.
The irony is that PK is doing what he is complaining about - not in the measures, but in the problematic labeling.