Re: Anarchism
Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 1:42 pm
Somebody posted this ISJ article in another thread, think it's quite relevant to all this:
http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=616&issue=125
From my experience, anarchists and autonomists have the right values, but their distrust of anything approaching organisation or democratic centralism makes any kind of strategic planning nigh on impossible.
Interestingly, Bakunin is often criticised for the undemocratic way in which he operated within the First International:
http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=616&issue=125
From my experience, anarchists and autonomists have the right values, but their distrust of anything approaching organisation or democratic centralism makes any kind of strategic planning nigh on impossible.
Interestingly, Bakunin is often criticised for the undemocratic way in which he operated within the First International:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin#CriticismHe rejected political action as a means of abolishing the state and developed the doctrine of revolutionary conspiracy under autocratic leadership– disregarding the conflict of this principle with his philosophy of anarchism. Madison contended that it was Bakunin's scheming for control of the First International that brought about his rivalry with Karl Marx and his expulsion from it in 1872. His approval of violence as a weapon against the agents of oppression led to nihilism in Russia and to individual acts of terrorism elsewhere– with the result that anarchism became generally synonymous with assassination and chaos.