By _vanguardism_ I mean the belief and practice of elite power; in the case of Lenin, by the Communist Party structure, imitative of bourgeois power structures in the west. Hence the appearance of "state capitalism".
> is the oppsing "ism"? Do anti-vanguardists (whatever _that_ is) believe
> that some day everyone will wake up and say, on to the barricades
> simultaneously?
My aim is peace, freedom and equality, and I can't see any way of achieving this through war, compulsion, and hierarchy. Therefore, I believe in and work at a diffused movement which will establish new, non-coercive communities and relations, thus pulling people away from the State from below; subversion and seduction as opposed to conquest and command. To quote a well-known rabbi, "Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." And really, a _barricade_ should be considered a conservative apparatus, should it not?
-- Gordon