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The Left Transition
Through many days of thought i have come up with a theory of where anarchism, socialism, and communism go hand in hand. I call this the left transition, in this theory society will go left until it hits anarchism or some form of anarchism. This would happen through society transitioning out of it's predatory phase, a phrase coined by Einstein. Has mankind transitions from this phase it could except new forms of government. It all goes in the following order capitalism->socialism->communism->anarchism(or some form of anarchism[preferably anarcho-communism]).
The transition from communism to anarchism will come when man has for the most part, concurred his predatory phase. Equality reigns supreme and mankind will no longer need a state to given itself has it has little will to kill each other and steal. Essentially the perfect Utopian society, no corruption of state officials, just harmony and cooperation with one another no matter their beliefs.
But the danger i find in this theory is that theres a vice versa for the right wing spectrum, and has we as a species stand we are neither mostly left or right. So a right wing society still has time to reign supreme over the equality of man.
Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. ~ Nelson Mandela
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Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. ~ Nelson Mandela
Communists and anarchists want the same society, we disagree over dialectics, how to get there. Communism is effectively anarchism in the same sense of traditional anarchism i.e. from Bakunin.
This isn’t a particularly notable insight by Einstein, the idea of transitioning you talk about has always been a key part of Marxist and Anarchist thought. All Marxist and Anarchist thought (and its various offshoots) seeks a communist society with the differences being in just how how this should/can be achieved and this is primarily a question of how the transition is to be made.
Marx and the more authoritarian socialists that followed in his tradition believed that one of the first steps in this transition involved the destruction of the old state and creation of a new one a necessary step to the attainment of communism (a period often referred to as socialism). This idea was briefly mentioned in the manifesto and dealt with greater detail in Lenin’s State and Revolution and rather comically by Brezhnev.
Anarchists and other libertarian socialists believe that a rapid transition to communism is not only possible but the transition can ultimately only happen with the destruction of the state period and to do otherwise would doom the attempt.
Likewise both Anarchists and Marxists given their materialist conception of the world believe in concepts of a social transition ( a reforming of what is assumed to be the “unchangeable” human nature) which will be necessary for communism to be function.
Anarchism is a method to achieving communism and cannot be physically be achieved once communism has been met. After all how can you destroy the state in a stateless society and end class contradictions in a classless society?
The idea that capitalism and the ideologies that uphold will inevitably degrade rather than progress society is the foundation of Marxist and Anarchist though.
I think this is *generally* true, but I've also found that anarchists insist on a strict *localism* and *lateralism* -- decentralization, in other words.
I just can't abide this conception since this kind of patchwork approach would necessitate some kind of inter-commune economics, which would effectively be an inter-communal *commodification* of material social relations.
More detail on this topic was covered at a recent thread:
What is a centralized and a decentralized economy.
http://www.revleft.com/vb/centralize...337/index.html
Consider:
[3] Ideologies & Operations -- Fundamentals
Also:
[7] Syndicalism-Socialism-Communism Transition Diagram
