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In Defense of Anarchism, In Defense of Anti-Autoritarianism by Ron Tabor, July 28, 1996

In Defense of Anarchism, In Defense of Anti-Autoritarianism by Ron Tabor, July 28, 1996

A wide-ranging debate within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation was sparked by Ron Tabor's July 1996 response to another member Chris Day's polemic "The Historical Failure of Anarchism" (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-day-the-historical-failure-of-anarchism). Tabor, who had been a leader in the Revolutionary Socialist League, also wrote a critique of Lenin and the Bolsheviks "A Look at Leninism". Love and Rage did not survive the fissure and Day's faction soon left the anarchist movement.

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Kdog
Apr 17 2017 04:10

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  • Will we continue to advocate and seek to carry out an anti-authoritarian revolution, or will we abandon our anti-authoritarian principles and program and turn ourselves into bourgeois revolutionaries in the interests of a short-sighted conception of revolutionary efficiency?

    Ron Tabor

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klas batalo
Apr 18 2017 03:13

thanks for the upload!

Juan Conatz
Apr 20 2017 19:20

Thanks for posting this.

distributionist
Mar 20 2018 00:40

This is great stuff. I'm working on a plaintext version of it for accessibility.

distributionist
Sep 14 2018 16:20

Black Rose just published a transcribed version of this essay, with an intro by former L&R member Bill Bachmann:
http://blackrosefed.org/in-defense-of-anarchism-chris-day-response/