Anarcho-Stalinism (!) Down With!

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Mon Aug 5 21:53:27 PDT 2002


Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote:


> It does seem peculiar that Anarchists and Stalinists (like the Worker's
> World Party) were the main radical elements involved in the so-called
> "anti-capitalism" protests. It seems that they sort of play off of one
> another, the IAC used the "actually existing socialist nations" dogmatically
> as a way to proceed on actions in the U.S., and the anarchists react by
> saying that the IAC is "authoritarian." This makes up a few megs worth of the
> bulletin boards on indymedia...

It would be completely inaccurate to say that Stalinists have played any significant role in the anti-capitalist mvoements. I'd be more inclined to give more credit to the late-coming ISO than I would to groups like the IAC.

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