[lbo-talk] Albert Parsons

[B.]

Page 12 of Daniel Guerin's _Anarchism_: "Anarchism is
really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is
primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the
exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of
the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose
main components are concern for liberty and haste to
abolish the state." 

Guerin, of course, edited the No Gods, No Masters
collection, among other things, like Fascism & Big
Business.

That same page of _Anarchism_ has Adolph Fischer,
another Chicago martyr, saying, "Every anarchist is a
socialist but not every socialist is an anarchist."

And in his 1910 Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on
"anarchism," Krropotkin wrote that "anarchism is the
extreme left wing of socialism," which Murray Bookchin
and other contemporaries have said they agreed with.
The anarchist martyrs of Haymarket were just that --
anoks, but in our era folks like Guerin, Bookchin,
Chomsky, etc., have said anarchism is a stream of
socialist thought, just like their Haymarketer
forebears did. "Libertarian socialism," et. al.

But, hey -- fuckin' fuckety *fuck*!  :)

-B.

Chuck0 wrote:

"I'm tired of the motherfuckers who have spent years
trying to remove the anarchism from the Haymarket
martyrs. The worst offenders are the Illinois Labor
History Society and commie publications like the
Socialist Worker. People should at least get their
facts straight and stop this red-washing of anarchist history."