Re: [Marxism] anarchism

[andrew pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

I wish this were true (the disappearance again of anarchism). I think
it's way too early to tell. I'm judging, on the one hand, from what I
read on a social forum list; from the Zmag site; and from a general sense
that this milieu of antiglobalization NGOs and those they lead in
movements is still out there in force if not engaged in a very visible
project at the moment. And on the other hand, I expect they'll revive to
the extent no other force in the movements steps forward, in particular a
working-class based force.

In that sense the anarchists mentioned by Louis come from the same
conditions that led to the flourishing of the Greens (and not of the
Labor Party), to the Greens' drift to the right, and to the ABB
phenomenon. Now that the election is over in fact I suspect the
anarchists will be quickly more visible.

But again that's partly up to us.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:19:50 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> In 2000, anarchism was all the rage. There were articles all over the
>
> bourgeois press about Seattle-type protests, white coveralls, black
>
> blocks, etc. People like Chuck Zero were ubiquitous on the Internet
>
> telling us bronto-Marxists that they would bury us in Khruschevian
> terms.
>
> After 9/11, the anarchist movement pretty much disappeared for
> obvious
> reasons. In comparison to the Zapatistas, the objects of US imperial
>
> wrath are hardly the sort to inspire such freedom-lovers. Leading
> anarcho-Zapatista ideologue Bill Weinberg actually gave critical
> support
> to US occupation in terms not that dissimilar from Christopher
> Hitchens.
>
> However, the movement has largely disappeared off the face of the
> earth.
> Since it was tied to vacillating NGO's around anti-globalization
> protests, it has not found a new partner to take the place of such
> well-funded and highly visible outfits such as those clustered
> around
> the World Social Forum.
>
> Back in 2000 I intended to write a book on anarchism, but abandoned
> the
> project after it became clear to me that it was no longer worth
> answering. I wrote one installment on Bakunin at:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/Bakunin.htm
>
>
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