Thread: Anarchist Mass Organization in The U.S.

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    History seems to be pretty clear that people will only be turned towards revolution under certain situations. Voluntarist organizations will desperately seek to increase their membership through any means, usually by taking up shitty bourgeois politics, but the fact is that:

    1. Given the present conditions, it is impossible to build a large "fighting propaganda group " that is genuinely revolutionary.
    2. Given the very, very unlikely situation that such a thing could be built, it's very questionable whether it could have any meaningful impact on its own.

    It is a mistake(and even reactionary to a degree) to just look to the movements of the past and mechanically apply them to the situation of today. The mass movements of the late 19th and early 20th century are gone, and such things are no longer possible or even desirable since they were ultimately shown to have their foundations on sand.

    Though one of the important things to stress is that it's not like these people are "wrong" and we're "right" in the sense that one must just plug in the right formula to achieve success and become relevant; it's about realizing that ultimately no matter what we try to do, there are big limits on what activists can do, so shit like reformism, nationalism, and anti-imp might as well be tossed even if that means a smaller member base(as if it was relevant anyway).

    Ravachol also brings up a good point in that most peoples' conception of communism seems to involve a generalization of the proletarian condition rather than its abolition, but that's opening another can of worms.
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    Any news?They said on the anarkismo that they will have a conferance at february. Whats are the developments?

    Altough,I am not an anarchist,I am intrested about the movements current situation in the US.
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    Even if the result is a platform group, organizing the left is almost necessary in this country; if only to give it a voice. We really don't have any significantly influential leftist group - the closest things would be Occupy and the DSA - and one can only hope the anarchists can change that.
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    I would see this as a positive development for US anarchism. It may not solve some of the larger issues with a disconnect between consiousness and action in the US and lack or organization among the class, but it could help with some subjective issues in anarchist circles. One criticism I have of US anarchism is that there is a tendency (I think due to a lack of struggle for so long) to organize in an apolitical way, around tactics or as small affinity groups. This makes it harder for militants to learn and build off of struggles because people just "do thier thing". More coordination and cooperation would necissarily mean having to evaluate actions and ideas more collectivly which could help the radical movement in the US make some advances from the place it's at now.

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