Originally posted by
[email protected] 23 2004, 12:13 AM
During the civil war, but what about when thats over? Is that how you expect the capitalist soaked world to live in anarchism?
Heh, it's a surprise they managed to make it for the 4 years they did, and during a war where they had to fight Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy too no less. Without support from anyone except for Russia at the end, who quickly recommended to the Stalinists to slaughter the Anarchists and break up the worker's collectives.
Imagine how it would go if this time we don't have Stalin to backstab us, or Hitler, Mussolini and Franco to run a scorched earth war against us.
When the civil war ended, Spain's Anarchist movement and its Anarcho-Syndicalist unions were all but gone. It doesn't have to be like that this time, because this time, we won't step aside and build a state again to appease our "Comrades" in the Stalinist parties.
For what, a few tanks? The militias were outnumbered incredibly, and fighting three armies better trained, better equipped and better numbered than they were, Stalin's refusal to help unless they were reorganized into a regular army was completely idiotic if not downright treasonous.
He wanted them to break up the collectives, break up the cell-based nohierarchical guerrilla fighters, setup a new state and allow the Capitalists and Stalinists who had abandoned them to join and take a lead role in this government.
They decided to "put the revolution on hold" in the name of "solidarity against the Fascist threat". So they shared power and re-established the Government. They also broke up the big collectives and reorganized a standing regular army.
It didn't take long before the Anarchist ministers were arrested and the Stalinists and Capitalists stood together in finishing the job of smashing the collectives. They went on a campaign to capture or kill the Anarchists across the country.
The results? The army which had foolishly lost the advantage of speed and dedication was destroyed. All to keep their worst fears from materializing, Stalinists and Capitalists could never allow real worker's liberation to materlialize.
This time, the lessons have been learned and we're not about to choose between "the lesser of two evils", or three here. We'll take up arms against all of them if need be, a better society is possible.