[lbo-talk] query: from anarchist to marxist???

[christian bayes]

I recently re-watched the interview with David Graeber on Charlie Rose that,
I think, ravi posted. He described anarchism in a way that I thought was
really interesting. In general, he said that it is a committment to the idea
that it's possible to have a society based on self-organization, voluntary
association and mutual aid. If you are interested in living as if that is
possible, then you are an anarchist.

I take it that the passage through anarchism to Marxism probably comes by
way of a recognition of the necessity of the state--that was something that
Doug touched on in passing in the interview w/Corey Robin. I wonder what
Marxists--or "Marxists"--think of this.

-christian

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On 10/17/2011 9:33 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>  When I was writing my MA on Murray Bookchin, I met ten to fifteen Bay Area
>> ecoMarxists who had started their leftward and greenward trajectory with
>> Bookchin... a few of them used the "grew out of" kind of language, though
>> more often it was "grew dissatisfied with, sought out other things and
>> landed in a variety of Western Marxism."  Most retained real affection of
>> their anarchist phase and appreciation of what they learned but did see it
>> as a moment in a process.
>>
>
> Ah. One of the people who told me this had also studied with Bookchin in
> the Bay Area. I wonder if this is a major source of such moves.
>
> Bookchin himself basically broke with anarchism late in life, although I
> sense that his line was something like "I didn't leave US anarchism, it left
> me."
>
> SA
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