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That's not really true.
In the first international the anarchists were kicked out.
The Bolsheviks hated the anarchists, which anyone who reads a few pages of Lenin would see.
Historically speaking even before a revolution anarchists and communists didn't work well alomgside each other.
Is this resistance or a costume party?
Either way I think black with bandanas is a boring theme.
fka Creep
What about how Makhno and the people of Free Territory helped the Bolsheviks fight off the white army (y'know before they were betrayed and slaughtered)?
Actually, there were many Anarchists involved in the Soviets before the other parties got kicked out. In fact, many anarchists held positive views of the Bolsheviks until Kronstadt.
I also have a book of Trotsky's speeches, one of which criticizes anarchist theory, but refers to anarchists as "comrades" and talked very positively of their involvement in the revolution.
Oh these evil, evil communists always betraying the innocent ingenuous anarchists...
What some anarchists seldom say is that cheka officials had been killed by anarchists; that anarchist organizations, due to its anti-hierarchical character, were entered by reactionaries and so on.
Also, I consider anarchists of all sorts (let alone an-caps) my comrades.
Give him a copy of Lenin's State and Revolution, or perhaps show him some literature about the early Communist International and how the Anarchists and Marxists disagreed over means, not ends. Direct textual evidence and actual historical events are something he won't be able to dispute. Maybe you won't make him an anarchist or Marxist but you can at least correct his glaring misunderstanding of the international socialist movement.
Socialist Party of Outer Space
LOL he teaches English.
Well I wasn't planning on converting him but I want to explain to him that it can work, and educate him a little bit. The only thing I dislike is that he subtly injects his politics into his teachings, but overall I would say he's a good teacher. I have a B+ In the class and he actually loves that I'm one of the only students who disagrees with him and try's to have debates with him lol.
Tell your teacher that:
1-Anarcho-Communism is not "a mix between anarchism and communism". It's a communist current that comes from the anarchist tradition, not the marxist one.
2-Communism means a stateless, classless society, which is exactly what anarchists want. He's confusing communism with common sense view of the dictatorship of the proletariat ("RUSSIA"), which is a means to get to communism, not communism itself.
3-Anarcho-communists are different from mainstream Marxist communists in that they don't want to have the dictatorship of the proletariat phase in between and want to go straight to the stateless classless thing.
It's a very simplistic and somewhat vulgar explanation, but I guess it works for people with no idea what they're talking about.
I agree. There's no dichotomy between 'Anarchists' and 'Communists'. Some communists are Anarchists - Anarchist-Communists or Anarcho-Communists or Communist-Anarchists as they've variously been called (see, Peter/Pyotr Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman etc) - and some communists are Marxists.
While there are certainly disagreements (and still a lot of mutual incomprehension) between Anarchists and Marxists, Anarchist Communism has been a current of socialism since the 1880s.
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Pt IV: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
No War but the Class War
Destroy All Nations
Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC): "A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
Good, because he'd be an abysmal history teacher.
I'm on some sickle-hammer shit
Collective Bruce Banner shit
FKA: #FF0000, AKA Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
Make him a gift of a book on Anarcho-Communism.
Luís Henrique
You need to school him as it is obvious that he equates communism with the authoritarian regimes of state capitalism. In that respect, he is correct to argue that anarchists would hate the "communists". But he's wrong in thinking that the USSR, etc. were communist.
"Events have their own logic, even when human beings do not." - Rosa Luxemburg
"There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen." - Lenin
People who don't understand Communism think it's all about having a huge government that controls every part of human existence. I believe this is how he views communism thus, to him, Anarchism is its direct opposite.
FKA Red Godfather
Let me guess, people are greedy and stupid and if you tell them to share, they will hoard shit so you need a totalitarian government to make them share because sharing is against human nature?
Was I spot on, I didn't actually read your post. But make sure to troll your teacher errday.
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped." MLK
-fka Redbrother
Your teacher confuses communism with state capitalist dictatorships. Actually, the communist experiences that you historically had came from anarchists uprisings.
There was never any sympathy of the Bolsheviks towards the anarchists or any kind of will for a long-term commitment, while it is true that anarchists wrongly trusted in the Bolsheviks in the beginning.
The anarchists were merely used by the Bolsheviks firstly to overthrow the Tzar, next the provisional government and finally to get rid of the white army.
The Bolsheviks plans were traced and they never included the anarchists in it nor they could due to its oppressive nature.
My history teacher is also a right-wing conservative nut-job but she doesn't spew her venom into the teaching's for the most part.
Haha I do. I come every day after school to talk to him. He think's i'm a "commie" and a "rebel without a cause" lol
Tell him to visit Revleft, heh. Although you might want to edit your posts above
FKA Red Godfather
He probably feels that way because far too many people are convinced that communism= bureaucratic-run state capitalism.
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
-James Baldwin
"We change ideas like neckties."
- E.M. Cioran
Haha I'm dying right nowTell him to visit Revleft, heh. Although you might want to edit your posts above
