[lbo-talk] Bakunin on Marx

[Lenin's Tomb]

On 7/1/07, Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> I'll put anything purportedly bad done by anarchists against the horrors
> perpetrated by Marxist-Leninist-Maoists in the 20th century.
>
> Us anarchists will come out smelling like roses.
>
> Crack a fucking history book.

You guys never had any power, so obviously you didn't get too
bloodied.  And some of us have been mounting immanent critiques of
Stalinism, Maoism and (dare I say it?), the much lesser sin of
Fidelism, for a long time.  In the same way that you wouldn't want to
be tainted with the fantasies of one Mikhail Bakunin, marxists don't
always belong to the same category as either Mao or Stalin.