In These Times

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• • 28 Sep 07
  • 1:16 pm

  I recall the pseudonymous anarchist Rayo mocking the idea of floating cities is his pamplet "Vonu." (Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he was in favor of it, and I mocked the idea as I read it. It's been a while.) The idea back then (1960's ... when he wrote it, not when I read it) was that families would sail in yacht flotillas, farming the sea (actual farming! with crops growing from dirt on deck!), trading for necessities (vitamin C, manufactured goods, etc.) in port, and generally enjoying the benefits of free, non-coercive association. If anyone didn't like the mayor of the …

  Posted to Floating Utopias

• • 13 Sep 07
  • 3:53 pm

  'There’s not a union left today worth anything…" Then get organizing! A union is only as good as its members.

  Posted to Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom