----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenin's Tomb" <leninstombblog at googlemail.com>
Why don't you read Bakunin's letter to Albert Richard? Despite his wholesome 'anti-authoritarian' abuse of communists as elitist and authoritarian, he plotted an "invisible dictatorship", which his elite and secret organisation would run after the revolution. Say what you like about the Bolsheviks, but they never tried to make themselves invisible except to the Tsarist monarchy. Bakunin was deeply authoritarian: it doesn't get any conspiratorial and elitist than what he had in mind. In fact, there is a huge tradition of authoritarianism and elitism within anarchism, and it usually expresses itself in terms of a mania for secrecy, conspiracy, aversion to the masses, etc (cf Goldman's views about the ignorant masses and the need for intelligent minorities).
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/1870/albert-richard.htm
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