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Marx and Anarchism |
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by Rudolf Rocker |
08 Oct 2005
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"Marx wanted to conceal from everyone just what he owed to Proudhon and any means to that end was admissible. There can be no other possible explanation; the means Marx later used in his contest with Bakunin are evidence that he was not very scrupulous in his choice " ... The state is based on the contradiction between public and private life, on the contradiction between general interests and private interests. Hence the administration has to confine itself to a formal and negative activity, for where civil life and its labour begin, there the power of the administration ends ... " This essentially anarchist interpretation of the nature of the state, which seems so odd in the context of Marx's later teachings, is clear proof of the anarchistic roots of his early socialist evolution." |
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Anarchism and Sovietism |
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by Rudolf Rocker |
08 Oct 2005
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"The idea of "soviets" is a well defined expression of what we take to be social revolution, being an element belonging entirely to the constructive side of socialism. The origin of the notion of dictatorship is wholly bourgeois and as such, has nothing to do with socialism. It is possible to harness the two terms together artificially, if it is so desired, but all one would get would be a very poor caricature of the original idea of soviets, amounting, as such, to a subversion of the basic notion of socialism." |
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Maximoff on the Russian Counter-Revolution |
by G.P. Mximoff
Previously published: Vanguard Vol. 11, No. 5 Oct.- Nov. 1935 (New York,New York) |
02 Oct 2005
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Preamble to the IWW constitution |
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by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
02 Oct 2005
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The Relevance of Anarchism |
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by Sam Dolgoff |
27 Sep 2005
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"Meaningful discussion about the relevance of anarchist ideas to modern
industrialized societies must first, for the sake of clarity, outline the dif-
ference between today's "neo-anarchism" and the classical anarchism of
Proudhon, Kroptkin, Malatesta and their successors. With rare exceptions one
is stuck by the mediocre and superficial character of the ideas advanced by
modern writers on anarchism." |
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My Disillusionment in Russia (Afterword) |
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by Emma Goldman |
27 Sep 2005
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Emma Godman's views and criticism of the Russian Revolution. |
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The W.S.A.'s Origins |
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by Workers Solidarity Alliance |
23 Sep 2005
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A short history of the Workers Solidarity Alliance |
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Founding of the Worker's International |
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by Mikhail Bakunin |
23 Sep 2005
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"Only individuals, and a small number of them at that, can be carried away by an abstract and "pure" idea. The millions, the masses, not only of the proletariat but also of the enlightened and privileged classes, are carried away only by the power and logic of "facts," apprehending and envisaging most of the time only their immediate interests or moved only by their monetary, more or less blind, passions. Therefore, in order to interest and draw the whole proletariat into the work of the International, it is necessary approach it not with general and abstract ideas, but with a living tangible comprehension of its own pressing problems, of which evils the workers are aware in a concrete manner." |
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Principles of Syndicalism |
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by Tom Brown |
04 Sep 2005
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"Syndicalism — a theory and movement of trade unionism, originating in France, in which all means of production and distribution are brought under the direct control of their workers by the use of direct action, and organized through federations of labor unions; direct political and economic democracy in the workplace and community organized through labor unions and federations, including the abolition of capitalism, social classes, parliamentary government, bureaucracy and political parties." |
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After the Revolution |
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by Diego Abad de Santillan |
04 Sep 2005
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"..in facing the problem of social transformation, the Revolution cannot consider the state as a medium, but must depend on the organisation of producers. We have followed this norm and we find no need for the hypothesis of a superior power to organised labour, in order to establish a new order of things. We would thank anyone to point out to us what function, if any, the State can have in an economic organisation, where private property has been abolished and in which parasitism and special privilege have no place. The suppression of the State cannot be a languid affair; it must be the task of the Revolution to finish with the State. Either the Revolution gives social wealth to the producers in which case the producers organise themselves for due collective distribution and the State has nothing to do; or the Revolution does not give social wealth to the producers, in which case the Revolution has been a lie and the State would continue. Our federal council of economy is not a political power but an economic and administrative regulating power. It receives its orientation from below and operates in accordance with the resolutions of the regional and national assemblies. It is a liaison corps and nothing else." |
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