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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (26418)	9/5/2012 5:27:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

If you know how many times I've posted it, I haven't posted it often enuf.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (26418)	9/5/2012 5:36:42 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Wharf's quote should be attributed to the atheist Hindu communist anarchist Raj Patel. “There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.” Raj Patel Patel is a Libertarian Socialist and has described himself as "someone who has very strong anarchist sympathies." In his book The Value of Nothing he praised the grassroots participatory democracy practiced in the Zapatista Councils of Good Government in southern Mexico and has advocated similar decentralist models of economic democracy and confederal administration as templates to go by for social justice movements in the global north. He has also described himself as "not a communist, I'm just open minded", and in an interview with The New Yorker's Lauren Collins as an atheist Hindu. en.wikipedia.org