As my posting "Two questions" elicited no response let, allow me to clarify. The late 20th Century has no use for irony or Socratic dialogue and list members tend to use the bludgeon rather than the rapier. So let me be blunt.

In the destruction of Serbia/Kosovo,the USA and the UK (and other NATO members by default) are practising "State Terrorism" according to standard academic criteria which most Western academics do not apply in relation to the USA et alia. The Clinton decision to "set loose the dogs of war" was manifestly a disaster. He cracked and opened Pandora's Box. Did he crack because of constant
political/media harassment over his minor sexual pecadillos although he is merely an example of "l'homme moyen sensuel". Perhaps the "immediate cause of war" was Monica Lewthwaite.

I've derived some stimulating amusement from the semantic battle between Martin,Bill etc.over terms like "socialism", "anarcho-syndicalism" etc.There is wide-spread misuse of these words which merely have an historical significance. Haven't they noticed, at least, how Ludwig Wittgenstein described "Language Games"? Such labels are not relevant to the changing times and no longer have a commonly accepted meaning. They are a form of out-dated shorthand which few can now interpret. New closely defined coinages are required so that people have at least a clue as to what they disputing. Today, for example, I choose to define "global capitalism" as "corporate/marketing-driven consumer capitalism". But tomorrow? Don't forget that language is often used to obscure rather than illuminate, even if subconsciously or as a conditioned reflex response, eg "co-lateral damage".

(I veer towards the more positive meaning of anarchy as co-operative local endeavour of roughly equal benefit to all rather than say the media use of "anarchy" as "chaos".)

Re the query of Marques (pronounced Mark or Marx?) on the provenance of the remark "Under Capitalism, man exploits man; under Communism it's the other way round". It is a very old demotic Russian joke and whoever said it first is probably dead and unrecorded.

Denis Sullivan