methods to socialism (was Re: taxes)

[Chuck0]

Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
> 
> I read the thoughts on the methods of getting rid of capitalism from the
> perspective of anarchists with great interest.
> 
> I'm still unconvinced that there will be no need for at transition period
> between capitalist modes of production to a communistic (I mean this in a
> non-Leninist sense-I call myself an "Unhyphenated Marxist") mode.
> 
> Calls for clistered communities of ascetics don't do it for me, or I'd go
> and join a monastary.  Yup a bit too utopian.  This is not to say that my
> own views aren't utopian. I make assumptions that seisure of state power
> does not lead invariably to permanent authoritiarianism--I believe that
> after a time of transition, which includes property seisures, seisures of
> inheritance, strengthining union's in "state controlled" operations, ect,
> all power can be handed to the people and THEN set up along non hierarchial
> structures.
> 
> Of course, the question then becomes--well then how the hell does one seize
> power for this transitional time in the first place.  I don't think it can
> be done through the front door alone (ie, electoralism--although that is
> important for various reasons).
> 
> A few things need to happen first.  One I can think of is MILITANT union
> internationals which are INDEPENDANT and DEFIANT of any political party.
> This isn't to say that people shouldn't vote, but that we need to fight the
> current style of democracy at every moment by working for policies that will
> be in our OWN interest, or threaten a general strike across the world, or
> other actions across the world.
> 
> Yeah, pretty difficult...but there you have it...

Amen. I think that the path towards an anarchist revolution will be
based on practical work in our communities and workplaces.

This anarchist just spent an hour of his evening doing taxes. At least
that was the least annoying part of my day. The annoying part was
waiting in line for over 40 minutes at the local branch of my big bank,
while the tellers spent an endless amount of time scrutinizing the IDs
of all my working class Latino neighbors who were simply trying to cash
their paychecks. You would think that a big multinational bank could
afford to lose a little money by easing its identification standards.

At least one of the ladies in line started scolding the branch manager.
He tried to tell her that she could make a deposit through the ATM, but
she is my hero of the week for telling him that the long line was a
*community* problem.

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