Two Cheers for Bureaucracy (Re: Where was the Color at A16 in D.C.?

[Chuck0]

Andrew English wrote:
> 
> Every mass movement (unions, political parties, etc.) with any staying power
> has an apparatus.
> No serious movement cannot continue for very long without paid full-timers.
> The question to be struggled for is whether the apparatus is ultimately
> responsible to the rank-and-file
> members or whether the apparatus develops a life of its own and puts its own
> interests ahead of the
> members.
> 
> Even anarchist mass movements if they persist for very long (Spain) develop
> a bureaucracy.
> 
> -Andy English

Sorry, the contemporary anarchist movement is fully capable of operating
without paid full-timers.

For more anarchist thoughts on this see:

PROFESSIONAL REVOLUTIONARIES??
http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/practice/sp001691.html
THE PROFESSIONAL REVOLUTIONARY (2)
http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/practice/sp001692.html

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