Lucien van der Walt, 7 April 2011, Detailed reply to International Socialism: debating power and revolution in anarchism, Black Flame and historical Marxism
**The following paper substantially expands arguments I published as “Counterpower, Participatory Democracy, Revolutionary Defence: debating Black Flame, revolutionary anarchism and historical Marxism," International Socialism: a quarterly journal of socialist theory, no. 130 (2011), pp. 193-207.
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Comrade Lucien,
ReplyDeleteI have not read the full version yet. However I think that you have done an excellent work. I hope that we can translate it to Spanish.
Regards,
Belga - Red Libertaria de Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Dear Comrade Van Der Walt,
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to your visit to the UK. I tried to do a comment on your blog but didn't have a user name. It is a comment on this article:
JOURNAL: Anarchism, Black Flame, Marxism and the IST: debating power, revolution and Bolshevism ...
My comment is:
Joining the government surely violated the CNT's _politics_ but _policy_ was dictated by the members. They voted to go with the bad recommendation of their leaders on that fundamental issue. At the same time they rejected their leaders proposal to sensor the critics of that shit decision.
Gómez Casas, Juan (1986). _Anarchist Organisation: The History of the F.A.I._ Black Rose Books Limited. ISBN 0920057381
in solidarity,
Roger