The Auckland Anarchist #3

Love it, and hope to see more like this!

I look forward to seeing if I got the crossword right ;)

Great design, great contents, but what about some more in depth stuff about this christian anarchism? It still seems like a contradictionin terms for me. Now, that doesnt mean I necessarily reject it, becos a lot of stuff only works becos of its inbuilt contradictions. Go Hybrids!

But is christian anarchism supposedly anarchist because the state is rejected, or because unaccountable authority is rejected? I'm the latter sort of anarchist, For me the state is just the largest and most harmful of the many forms of unaccountable authority. Though at times neo-liberal markets and corporate-official neo-fascisms are the closest and most harmful of the apparatus of state.

But if I lived in a more religious society, I think I'd find religious authority more harmful, because its essentially unaccountable. Work and pray, live on hay, therell be pie, in the sky, when you die. On the other hand, I greatly admire the Ploughshares activists and are more than happy to contribute to that cause. I guess thats because they dont preach about the source of their ethics, and the effect of their ethics seems to overlap with mine with a very close fit.

Nonetheless, Jesus seems like a rather unaccountable authority. So I wonder how any anarchist can reject the state but accept an even more distant and one-way form of authority?

Still, that raises the question of where ethics, and particularly anarchist ethics, come from ...

maybe more on this topic in next issue?

cheers
Steve L

Hi, Sorry I didn't upload the publishing PDF to keep it smaller sized.

If you want to print this Zine out, please email me at media (at) ndu.org.nz for a print copy.

Cheers