Leo
9th July 2006, 01:44
As it is well know, workers movement is divided into millions of pieces, but there are some basic labels that make things simple for us. Almost all of those labels are dangerous labels, there are many people who would kill someone just for having such label, yet still those labels are products of the developing class consciousness... What are those labels? Marxism, Communism, Anarchism, for us the usual, what they are afraid of. But what is the difference between those movements? Anyone who is familiar to what lies beneath those labels can say that there is no point that those ideologies touch each other. It is almost as if they are on different planes, sort of like different manifestations of the same dream.
Anarchism is the most ancient movement, known anarchist ideas date back to ancient Greece. The hatred towards rulers, ruling institutions, hiearchy, property, bueraucracy etc. is an ancient feeling that has been developing. Anarchism takes its strength from the rebellious and passionate roots of human emotions. Paul Avrich says "Every good person is an anarchist somewhere inside", every action done for the good of human society and against oppression is guided by that feeling. This feeling, this passionate anger against oppression, the first guide of humanity against tyranny, this flame that burned in Galileo and Marx, Goldman and Einstein, Makhno and Debord, Spinoza and Guevara and many many more... Anarchism is truly the emotional ideological manifastation of our dreams.
And communism, it started at the point when we realized we could do it!... Communism is the realization of the power of imagination, it is the point where the oppressed actually realized that they can fly, that they can do what they want, where they can actually be free and happy. Communism is the world we imagine to live, the world we want to build, the reality we want to create. Communism is the intellectual ideological manifestation of our dreams.
Finally Marxism, tools of one man. While describing Marxism, I like using a resemblance to Darwinism. In fact they work almost in the same way. It is not taking every word he says but using the same tools to see the material conditions of the world and relations between classes and relations between individuals. We use those tools to understand how to achieve our dreams. Marxism is the scientific ideological manifestation of our dreams.
Naturally none of those ideological manifestations conflict each other. Yet, there had been many using those labels, each of them falsely because ideological manifestations of our dreams are incredibly powerful. Those three ideologies described might be main manifestations, but we can find more isms that are manifestations of our dreams. Ideological manifestations are products of history, the material conditions created them, therefore they are actually a common product of humanity. Even with Marxism, history would have created another Marx with another name to discover those tools. After all, everything is connected.
It is said that if enough number of people have the same dream, the dream becomes the reality. Now, all that remains for us, the dispossesed class, the working, the exploited, the oppressed, the enslaved, to unite for once and all and to start dreaming together. The possesed class is bound to fall.
Dispossesed dreamers of the world, unite!
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Anarchism is the most ancient movement, known anarchist ideas date back to ancient Greece. The hatred towards rulers, ruling institutions, hiearchy, property, bueraucracy etc. is an ancient feeling that has been developing. Anarchism takes its strength from the rebellious and passionate roots of human emotions. Paul Avrich says "Every good person is an anarchist somewhere inside", every action done for the good of human society and against oppression is guided by that feeling. This feeling, this passionate anger against oppression, the first guide of humanity against tyranny, this flame that burned in Galileo and Marx, Goldman and Einstein, Makhno and Debord, Spinoza and Guevara and many many more... Anarchism is truly the emotional ideological manifastation of our dreams.
And communism, it started at the point when we realized we could do it!... Communism is the realization of the power of imagination, it is the point where the oppressed actually realized that they can fly, that they can do what they want, where they can actually be free and happy. Communism is the world we imagine to live, the world we want to build, the reality we want to create. Communism is the intellectual ideological manifestation of our dreams.
Finally Marxism, tools of one man. While describing Marxism, I like using a resemblance to Darwinism. In fact they work almost in the same way. It is not taking every word he says but using the same tools to see the material conditions of the world and relations between classes and relations between individuals. We use those tools to understand how to achieve our dreams. Marxism is the scientific ideological manifestation of our dreams.
Naturally none of those ideological manifestations conflict each other. Yet, there had been many using those labels, each of them falsely because ideological manifestations of our dreams are incredibly powerful. Those three ideologies described might be main manifestations, but we can find more isms that are manifestations of our dreams. Ideological manifestations are products of history, the material conditions created them, therefore they are actually a common product of humanity. Even with Marxism, history would have created another Marx with another name to discover those tools. After all, everything is connected.
It is said that if enough number of people have the same dream, the dream becomes the reality. Now, all that remains for us, the dispossesed class, the working, the exploited, the oppressed, the enslaved, to unite for once and all and to start dreaming together. The possesed class is bound to fall.
Dispossesed dreamers of the world, unite!
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