Whats the best synthesis of democratic freedoms and Revolutionary thought? [Archive]

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Adi Shankara

25th June 2010, 04:22

I've been reading Trotsky, Bakunin, and Luxemburg alot lately...and so far, I enjoy her ideas on Social democracy the most so far within a revolutionary, non-reformist context--but I want to hear your opinions as well, and maybe get me a little help here :P

anyone have any good reads?

26th June 2010, 14:35

Anarcho-Trotskemburgism. Nice :thumbup1:
You may have just managed to piss off half of the revolutionary left with your new ideology :p

Uppercut

28th June 2010, 22:10

The Battle For China's Past, maybe? Even from a Trotskyist stance, I think there's something in there for everybody.

Oh, and The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon is a classic, too.

28th June 2010, 23:08

Bordiga (http://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm)

thomasludd

29th June 2010, 03:34

Antonio Negri meets Ernesto Laclau

:blushing: Here comes the bombardment from everyone!!!!!! :crying:

Blackscare

29th June 2010, 03:41

Check out the work of the Makhnovists. "Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack" is a good one.

The Platform (written after the civil war by Makhno, Arshinov and others) is ok, but in my opinion the best things to be learned from that movement are actually their actions during.

Makhno put forward a very good blend of strong, militant vanguardism on the one hand with a libertarian, hands-off approach to the worker's/peasant's councils on the other. They worked to establish a de-centralized democratic system and then refused to take part in the voting as an organized bloc. This is an important distinction between Makhno's vanguardism and a vanguard party.

Proletarian Ultra

29th June 2010, 16:41

Marx's 1844 manuscripts. especially "Estranged Labor" and "Private Property and Communism".

BAM

29th June 2010, 16:57

Maurice Brinton. British libertarian socialist. Wrote some great eye-witness reports of May 68 in Paris and lots of other generally very good stuff that appeals to both anarchists and socialists alike. There are plenty of his writings on the web (easily found) and also a good collection called For Workers' Power, published by AK Press.