Role of the Revolutionary Organisation
We Anarchist Communists have a vision of a revolutionary organisation in bold contrast to that of the Leninists and other authoritarians. At the same time our concept of revolutionary organisation is in political and organisational disagreement with the idea of informal groupings as advocated by some Anarchists.
What truly distinguishes the Anarchist Communist organisation is its structure, its relationship with the working class, and a theoretical elaboration of that relationship coupled with a precise understanding of class spontaneity. It becomes increasingly important to attempt this clarification. The crisis of market Capitalism in the west and state capitalism in Eastern Europe, China and Cuba on every level, (economic, social, cultural and sexual), is reflected in the crisis of the organisations of the revolutionary left. These organisations duplicate ruling class values in their authoritarianism, their high degree of centralism, their worship of hierarchy and the sheep-like submission of the rank and file to the omnipotent and all-wise leaderships.
As the crisis in capitalism deepens, the related crisis in the left parties becomes more extreme, with split after split, opportunism and collaboration with the social-democratic agents of the bosses and the Labour Party. Militant seeks to show its respectability, denouncing anarchists to the police, while the once influential Workers Revolutionary Party has shattered into over a dozen fragments. For them, financial corruption, spying for Middle Eastern regimes, endorsement of murders of foreign fraternal comrades by the same regimes, the horrific systematic sexual abuse and rape of young women by top dog Healy, were the order of the day.
It is vital that a strong libertarian movement is all areas of social life is created so that working people can defend themselves against the capitalist onslaught and create a free self organised society. To assist in the building of such a mass movement, a libertarian revolutionary organisation is necassary: an organisation that fights for the co-ordination of all anti-captalist struggles. Such an organisation must have a structure that ensures permanent political debate and must be controlled by the whole membership. The anarchist revolutionary organisation must expose the authoritarianism and elitism of the Leninist, Marxist and Social-Democratic groups.
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