Let's Get Free
8th December 2012, 04:46
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The book came out a few years back but I only recently found out about it and just got done reading it. "Wobblies and Zapatistas," written by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic, is pretty much a really long conversation between the two about building bridges between the best traditions within anarchism and Marxism written for modern revolutionaries and working people. It is a series of provocations made by Grubacic as he asks Lynd questions about revolutionary practice now and historically. It starts out with the Zapatistas and the struggle to build new economic and political structures, and pulls out the key practices we can learn from it. It contains perhaps the simplest breakdown I have read on the differences between Marxism as an effort to understand the current structure of society and Anarchism as a new way to structure society, and puts forward how to work together to create the world as we want it to be. It looks at the revolutionary movements of the past like the Wobblies, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the Black Panthers, Liberation Theology, the Weathermen, etc. If you're interested at all, you can read it here.
http://libcom.org/files/Wobblies_and_Zapatistas.pdf
The book came out a few years back but I only recently found out about it and just got done reading it. "Wobblies and Zapatistas," written by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic, is pretty much a really long conversation between the two about building bridges between the best traditions within anarchism and Marxism written for modern revolutionaries and working people. It is a series of provocations made by Grubacic as he asks Lynd questions about revolutionary practice now and historically. It starts out with the Zapatistas and the struggle to build new economic and political structures, and pulls out the key practices we can learn from it. It contains perhaps the simplest breakdown I have read on the differences between Marxism as an effort to understand the current structure of society and Anarchism as a new way to structure society, and puts forward how to work together to create the world as we want it to be. It looks at the revolutionary movements of the past like the Wobblies, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the Black Panthers, Liberation Theology, the Weathermen, etc. If you're interested at all, you can read it here.
http://libcom.org/files/Wobblies_and_Zapatistas.pdf