Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Yes. That's part of what I meant by "taking power," though I should
> have said that. Every six or twelve months, I ask an anarchist purist
> how he or she (and almost all of them are he's, aren't they?) how they
> would deal with counterrevolutionary violence, which usually observes
> no niceties. E.g., how would they run Cuba (does an anarchist "run"
> anything? well, leave that aside) in the face of the implacable
> hostility of the United States? I've never gotten anything resembling
> an answer.
Sure, we know how. Mussolini was an anarchist at one time. And that is how anarchist organizations in the 19th-c (when it was a serious political current) were run. With far more iron discipline than any M-L party could even dream of.
Carrol