After the bitter experience of World War I and the Russian Revolution, the global anarchist movement had to rethink its approach to revolutionary change. The application of science and technology to warfare, the "rationalization" of production, the rise of fascism, etc., created conditions not envisaged in Kropotkin's teachings, which were subjected to a thoroughgoing revision. But Kropotkin also had his defenders, who not only insisted on the relevance of his ideas, but also extended his critique of industrial society. Using a wide variety of sources, Vadim Damier examines these debates, which found their culmination in the CNT's 1936 resolution on libertarian communism.
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This is an excellent pamphlet
This is an excellent pamphlet and gives an interesting take on "worker anarchism". I don't FORAista identify as the model, but there is something that rings true in a sense of building the core for libertarian workers to specifically organize around in the absence of a specifically anarcho-syndicalist union.
For those of us who identify with the anarchist tradition of syndicalism I can appreciate this:
This a nice, succinct summary
This a nice, succinct summary of the debates of that time. It would be great to have more FORA stuff online in full - anyone know Vadim? Maybe he could upload any translations?
I'm also interested in M. Acharya's 1931 defence of anarchist communism on page 16. He or she talks about the content of struggle much more than others, including value and exchange, which is very 'communisation-like'. It would be neat to have their article in full.
Thanks for the article!
There's not much by Lopez
There's not much by Lopez Arango, the chief FORA theoretician, available in English. Here are some online articles in the original Spanish:
Arango E. L. Dirección política u orientación ideológica del movimiento obrero. http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Direcc...imiento_obrero
Arango E. L. Ideas y Ética. http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/IDEAS_Y_ETICA
Arango E. L. La oposición al marxismo en el movimiento obrero. http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/LA_OPO...IENTO_OBR ERO
Arango E. L. Medios de lucha. http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Medios_de_lucha
Some of Lopez Arango's writings have been translated into Russian (by Vadim, I think) and posted on the KRAS-MAT website (http://aitrus.info).
This may interest some and
This may interest some and falls within the general "finalist" FORA perspective....
Lost Conversations: Questioning the legacy of anarchosyndicalism
By Scott Nappalos
- See more at: http://ideasandaction.info/2013/09/lost-conversations-questioning-the-legacy-of-anarchosyndicalism/#sthash.WO5uO8fF.dpuf
Karetelnik wrote: There's not
Karetelnik
Thanks! Now who wants to put these into English?
Jared wrote: Karetelnik
Jared
You could drop Alias Recluse a message on here.
I actually translated a
I actually translated a number of Arango's pieces. Translating Ideario and his book with Santillan would be huge, as would a collection of the various theorists and strategists Argentina, as one of the world's centers of the anarchist movement, produced over its golden age.
https://libcom.org/tags/emilio-lopez-arango