Anarcho-Communism and Hoxhaism.

[TheCuriousCommunist]

Can someone explain these philosophies to me?

[ComradeMan]

http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/anarcho-communism

Anarcho-Communism, or Libertarian Communism, is a political ideology related to Libertarian socialism. However, the terms Anarcho-Communism and Libertarian Communism should not be considered synonyms for libertarian socialism. Anarcho-Communism is a particular branch of libertarian socialism.
Anarcho-Communism was first formulated in the Italian section of the First International, by Carlo Cafiero, Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa and other ex-Mazzinian Republicans. Out of respect for Mikhail Bakunin, they did not make their differences from standard Anarchism explicit until after the latter's death. In 1876, at the Florence Conference of the Italian Federation of the International (which was actually held in a forest outside Florence, due to police activity), they declared the principles of Anarcho-Communism, beginning with:
"The Italian Federation considers the collective property of the products of labour as the necessary complement to the collectivist programme, the aid of all for the satisfaction of the needs of each being the only rule of production and consumption which corresponds to the principle of solidarity. The federal congress at Florence has eloquently demonstrated the opinion of the Italian International on this point..." The above report was actually made in an article by Malatesta and Cafiero in the (Swiss) Jura Federation's bulletin later that year.
Anarcho-communism stresses the abolition of money and the introduction of the gift economy to facilitate the exchange of goods.
In anarcho-communism, profit no longer exists. Not only that, but goods are given away as gifts in the certainty that others will also give products back (in an industrial setting, this would occur between worker syndicates as well as between individuals). If one syndicate does not share their products, they will not receive resources from other syndicates, making it in their best interest to share.
Anarcho-communism also advocates the abolition of work in the sense of wage slavery, and recommends worker self management to improve working conditions, increase efficiency, and make working enjoyable.


RE ENVER HOXHA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoxhaism
Hoxhaism is a word used to describe a variant of anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism that developed in the late 1970s due to a split in the Maoist movement, appearing after the ideological row between the Communist Party of China and the Party of Labour of Albania in 1978.
The Albanians rallied a new separate international tendency. This tendency would demarcate itself by a strict defense of the legacy of Joseph Stalin and fierce criticism of virtually all other Communist groupings as revisionist.

http://www.pksh.org/

[Ismail]

Hoxhaists are basically anti-revisionists who reject Maoism as anti-Marxist. They do not view China as having been socialist at any stage in its development.

They do, however, share aspects in common such as their analyses of social-imperialism and state-capitalism.

The term "Hoxhaism" was never used by Hoxha himself or parties affiliated with him. They simply used Marxist-Leninist. It's basically used to distinguish between anti-Mao and pro-Mao anti-revisionists.

[Lenin II]

Hoxhaists hold that the USSR under Lenin and Stalin and Albania under Hoxha were socialist societies. They follow the line of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. They hold that after 1956 the USSR was politically revisionist and after the 1965 economic reforms was increasingly capitalist and social-imperialist. It also holds that Maoism is a form of revisionism and upholds the theses on socialism and imperialism made by Enver Hoxha in 1979's "Imperialism and the Revolution."

[TheCuriousCommunist]

Both sound good, but I'm really leaning towards Hoxhaism. I really do despise Maoism. Does anyone know of any American Hoxhaist or Anarcho-Communist groups?

[#FF0000]

Both sound good, but I'm really leaning towards Hoxhaism. I really do despise Maoism. Does anyone know of any American Hoxhaist or Anarcho-Communist groups?

Anarcho-Communist: NEFAC

Hoxhaist: American Party of Labor.

[TheCuriousCommunist]

What is the NEFAC?

[Bright Banana Beard]

North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists

[Lenin II]

Why is the poster restricted?

[#FF0000]

Why is the poster restricted?

See his introduction thread.

[RGacky3]

Both sound good, but I'm really leaning towards Hoxhaism. I really do despise Maoism. Does anyone know of any American Hoxhaist or Anarcho-Communist groups?

How the hell are you making a desicion between Hoxhaism and anarcho-communism????

Thats like saying "I'm deciding if I should choose to buy a bycicle or a tank."

Hoxhaism and anrcho-communism are so far apart from each other they can hardly by put in the same category, or even be compared.

I have a feeling the OP has absolutely know idea what his principles are and just wants to attach an ideology to himself.

[RGacky3]

Even if they are not pro-stalin the 2 ideologies are miles apart from each other.

[Lenin II]

I've seen it elaborated on here before that "not all Hoxhaists are pro-Stalin", I don't know very much about Hoxhaism but the post in question went unchallenged, it would be interesting to see what Hoxhaists say to this.

Anyone who says they aren't pro-Stalin while naming themselves after a man who wrote an entire book about Stalin clearly has no idea what they're talking about.

[TheCuriousCommunist]

I've read a bit about hoxhaism and hoxha himself, and Albania under him sounded pretty good. What is The Hoxahaist Union, and is anyone here a member of the APL?

[The Feral Underclass]

I noticed you but American Party of Labour as your organisation. I'm not sure you can just claim to be a member of APL. I think you have to actually join them. And yeah, there are several members.

Frankly though, I don't think you've taken this particular aspect of your political education all that seriously or understood the fundamental differences between anarchist communism and authoritarian communism.

[ComradeMan]

If I may.

Hoxha was a hardline Stalinist as far as I know. He regarded the USSR post-1953 as revisionist and Albania remained isolated and cut off. I know many Albanians, obviously Italy has strong ties with Albana, historical and modern, and I can assure you that life in Albania- according to them, was not a bowl of cherries by any means. Although Hoxha did improve women's rights and bring about a lot of reform and modernisation in Albania too I think his overthrowing of the traditional structures of Albanian society had a great and perhaps negative psychological impact on the people.

Interestingly, Hoxha's Albania made a cult hero out of the British comedian Norman Wisdom- being the only Western actor whose films were shown under Hoxha. Wisdom usually played the role of the small time worker bullied by the capitalist corporations but who won out in the end.

[TheCuriousCommunist]

TAT, I do not claim to be a member of the APL. Simply, i'm trying to say that it is the organization that best represents my beliefs. As for "not taking this particular aspect of my political education all that seriously or understanding the fundamental differences between anarchist communism and authoritarian communism." , I take this extremely seriously, and I really am not trying to sound like a total idiot, I'm just unfortunately doing a good gob of it. And I understand the fundamental differences between anarchist communism and authoritarian communism, and they both sound like a good thing. I just think hoxhaism offers more stability and long term gain if applied correctly. Again, sorry if I sound like a moron.

[TheCuriousCommunist]

If I may.

Hoxha was a hardline Stalinist as far as I know. He regarded the USSR post-1953 as revisionist and Albania remained isolated and cut off. I know many Albanians, obviously Italy has strong ties with Albana, historical and modern, and I can assure you that life in Albania- according to them, was not a bowl of cherries by any means. Although Hoxha did improve women's rights and bring about a lot of reform and modernisation in Albania too I think his overthrowing of the traditional structures of Albanian society had a great and perhaps negative psychological impact on the people.

Interestingly, Hoxha's Albania made a cult hero out of the British comedian Norman Wisdom- being the only Western actor whose films were shown under Hoxha. Wisdom usually played the role of the small time worker bullied by the capitalist corporations but who won out in the end.

That's my point when I say Albania sounded pretty good.

[TheCuriousCommunist]

• Hoxha remained a loyal Marxist-Leninist to the end of his life.
• Hoxha defeated Mussolini’s fascist forces and lead the Albanian liberation movement to victory against occupation and colonialism.
• Hoxha led the world’s longest-lasting and most advanced socialist state for almost 40 years.
• Socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat were established under Hoxha’s rule. His economic revolution was even more advanced than Stalin’s, with even more working class control over production centers.
• Albania was industrialized and turned into an almost entirely self-sufficient country, despite being the poorest and most backward nation in Europe (it was a tribal society until the 50s) and being a fascist colony with only 1.5 million people.
• Life expectancy under Hoxha went from 32 in the tribal days to 76.
• Illiteracy before Hoxha was 90-95% in 1939, which by 1950 went down to 30% and by 1985 was equal to that of the United States.
• Women’s rights were increased a thousand fold under Hoxha.
• Tribal warfare and honor killings were ended.
• Hoxha consistently fought against imperialism and particularly U.S. imperialism in Vietnam, Cuba, Indonesia, Africa, Latin America and everywhere else.
• Hoxha was the most consistent fighter against revisionism the world has ever known, exposing revisionism wherever it might be, from within his own party to the Soviet Union, China, Korea, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Italy and onwards. He exposed revisionism on principle even when it was in his best interests to keep his mouth shut, such as with China and the Soviet Union.
• Hoxha made an in-depth analysis of imperialism and social-imperialism, and explained in numerous works the connection between the two.
• Hoxha was the first socialist leader to recognize Khrushchev’s revisionism and was the first to publically speak out against it.
• Hoxha consistently fought against the renegade Tito and the Yugoslav revisionists.
• Hoxha fought against the Greek monarcho-fascists.
• Hoxha defeated coup attempts by the US, Tito, the Soviets and the Greeks.
• Hoxha was the first, even before Mao, to offer a correct analysis of Khrushchev’s invasion of Hungary.
• Hoxha was the first to offer an analysis of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia as well.
• Although he originally supported it, Hoxha later spoke out against the Cultural Revolution as anti-Marxist after it became clear it was a struggle between rightist factions.
• Hoxha recognized the nature of the Chinese state and, though he had spent decades praising it, decided to bravely push forward with his findings once and for all and declare Maoism a revisionist ideology.
• Hoxha spoke out against the “Three Worlds Theory.”
• Hoxha refuted the idea put forward by Mao that Soviet social-imperialism was somehow “more dangerous” than U.S. Imperialism.
• Hoxha was the first to speak out against Eurocommunism and wrote an entire volume refuting it.
• Hoxha condemned Nixon’s visit to Beijing and China’s collaboration with US imperialism.
• Hoxha condemned the fascist coup in Chile by Pinochet and the mass slaughter of communists in Indonesia by US imperialism.
• Hoxha condemned the genocidal acts in Kosova by Tito.
• Hoxha created an International based solely on his own prestige.
• Hoxha developed Marxism-Leninism further by exposing where revisionism comes from and how it can be fought.

Not my own, but good.