Re: Radical/Reactionary?

Date: 17th Aug '01

Name: austin

Country: none

The fact is that until times of revolt such as may 1968 the majiority of the working class are intergrated into the capitialist system more or less fully.It would better to almost call them bourgious citizens or the sociological working class-if that is patronising than so be it!-in order to distinguish them from the class-for-itself.It is from the latter perspective that i attempt to speak, a perspective deepened and confirmed by our insurgencies and constant struggle aganist Capitial.Marxists and revolutionary anarchists have always accepted that they share the same goals, despite the tendency of anarchists like Proudhon and Bhakuin to sport dodgy reactionary ideas from time to time: a global stateless community in harmony with nature.However not all anarchists belive in the negation of exchange which is a majior dividing line.Marxists also do not put the same stress on the individual seeing that is a concept that grew up with class society and will dissolve as the old world is dissolved into resurgent community.A lot of anarchists are also syndicislists and Marxists hold the same critique of all trade-unions, no matter how "revolutionary" or "democratic", that they become organs of mediation between the workers and capitial and so are unable to go beyond this- the history of the spanish counter-revolution bares this out with its CNT ministers in the "Popular Front" attacking other Marxist and anarchist workers who had asserted their antagonism to all forms of capitial-red,brown or black.The other difference is that anarchists are vague about the "dictatorship of the proletariat"-the need to ruthlessly suppress any remanents of the old world in a red terror.Given all that most anarchists if a little confused at times are obbjectively revolutionary. If you want to find out more about communism i recommend this web-site;

http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/index.html#toc

Its called "john gray-for communism" and contains a decent collection of textes and a huge collection of links, let me know what you think...and fuck society
with revolutionary greetings,
Austin

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