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7th December 2004, 18:24
How can we claim anarchism as our belief and still talk trash about Communism?Wouldn't it be better stated when expressing your anti-Communism you rather reffered to it as Marxist Communism, Authoritarian Communism, or State Communism?"
While it is true that it is not communism that we are against, after all we are anarchists and therefore libertarian communists, but rather against Communism. We are against Communist Parties, Communist Revolutionary Groups, and all organizations that promote authoritarianism while claiming to be marching under the flag of anti-capitalism. All anarchists can agree that anarchism is against capitalism just as much as it is against State communism.
But our reason for simply calling authoritarian communism, communism lies in the fact that no worker would understand what the hell we were talking about.
We are not out to win over more students to the anarchist cause but more workers. Therefore we have to work on thier terms, using language they would understand. When a worker hears the term communism, they think of U.S.S.R., China, and Cuba. They think of how things are done in those countries. That is what is engraved in their brain when it comes to communism. And the majority of 'em are against it.
So are we. We would therefore in no way shape or for give the illusion that we condone such countries by using words that are also used to describe such countries. We want there to be no mix up of what we condone and condemn. So therefore we call State Communism, Communism,we call Anarcho -Syndicalism, Anarchism, and substitiute the words pro-boss, anti-worker for capitalism and communism. We call the upper and middle class the boss class not bourgeois, we call the working class the people not the proletariat. We simply try to avoid confusion.
Hopefully this has answered any further questions concerning our anti-communism.
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While it is true that it is not communism that we are against, after all we are anarchists and therefore libertarian communists, but rather against Communism. We are against Communist Parties, Communist Revolutionary Groups, and all organizations that promote authoritarianism while claiming to be marching under the flag of anti-capitalism. All anarchists can agree that anarchism is against capitalism just as much as it is against State communism.
But our reason for simply calling authoritarian communism, communism lies in the fact that no worker would understand what the hell we were talking about.
We are not out to win over more students to the anarchist cause but more workers. Therefore we have to work on thier terms, using language they would understand. When a worker hears the term communism, they think of U.S.S.R., China, and Cuba. They think of how things are done in those countries. That is what is engraved in their brain when it comes to communism. And the majority of 'em are against it.
So are we. We would therefore in no way shape or for give the illusion that we condone such countries by using words that are also used to describe such countries. We want there to be no mix up of what we condone and condemn. So therefore we call State Communism, Communism,we call Anarcho -Syndicalism, Anarchism, and substitiute the words pro-boss, anti-worker for capitalism and communism. We call the upper and middle class the boss class not bourgeois, we call the working class the people not the proletariat. We simply try to avoid confusion.
Hopefully this has answered any further questions concerning our anti-communism.
controversial practise