>>> Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca> 12/05/99 11:37PM >>>
Oh, OK, so now it's time to drag out the anti-anarchist Marxist writers.
Do I sense some jealousy here? Am I correct in assuming that the authoritarian "international socialists" were caught flat-footed by the Battle in Seattle? Maybe if they spent less time selling their crappy newspapers and joined some community groups involved in direct action, they'd be more in touch with the spirit that led to N30.
I'm already seeing a huge increase in people joining my anarchist organizing lists. The events that transpired last week obviously inspired lots of people. Activist groups should be prepred to see an increase in new faces.
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Charles: I say congratulations to the anarchists for the contributions they made to the success of the people's anti-transnational monopoly demonstration in Seattle. It does seem that a lot of non-anarchists were part of the success too.
Marxists also congratulated the rebellers in Detroit in 1967, Watts in 1965 , Los Angeles in 199? ., where people who were even more anarchistic than anarchists, in the sense that they were completely unorganized, just did it.
Marx and Lenin congratulated the fighters of the Paris Commune in 1870., too, where there were many anarchists.
Spontaneous struggle has long been recognized by Marxists as a normal and necessary dimension of mass struggle. It is an expected stage in the development of a movement.
However, notice , though cheered by Seattle, we are still a long way from bringing down the transnational bourgeoisie. And all the other explosions I mention above, inspiring as they were, did not result in actually bringing down the system, let alone building a new one to replace it. It is not jealously to soberly point this out, but concern that we build on this spontaneity the fuller consciousness and organization necessary to carry things through to an effective revolution.
By the way, Communists were some of the biggest defenders of Sacco and Vanzetti.
CB