Errico Malatesta issue on Anarchy provides a good point to understand the concepts, concerns, and critiques.
He was an Italian anarchist that personally met Bakunin and Kropotkin. He was also persecuted during Fascist Italy.
He had his own ideologically inclusive form of libertarian communism (see 2/3), and believed in a labour movement that brought together disparate groups in order to form stronger unions (see 3/3)
His particular form of inclusive (for lack of a better word) anarchism is better illustrated in this passage:
"Imposed communism would be the most detestable tyranny that the human mind could conceive. And free and voluntary communism is ironical if one has not the right and the possibility to live in a different regime, collectivist, mutualist, individualist—as one wishes, always on condition that there is no oppression or exploitation of others. "
3/3
His vision on the labour movement is rather pragmatic as well (at least when operating in a non-revolutionary setting):
"...the aim of the labour movement is the protection and improvement of the conditions of the workers now and is not effective if its ranks are not swelled with the greatest possible number of wage earners, united in solidarity against their bosses..."
Perhaps the close encounter with fascism helped him see the trouble of fragmentation.
Here's a challenge. Talk to at least one different person IRL a week about socialism or communism. It can be about anything. Working class struggles, free healthcare/education, revolution, anything. We can no longer relegate our activity solely to the internet. As useful as the internet is, real change can only be made by going outside and interacting with people in real life. Go! Change the world! #communism#socialism
Our comrade #FionaLali just launched a campaign for the coming #ukelection as MP for Stratford and Bow.
As communists we should have no illusions that the problems of the working class can be resolved by parliamentary means. This campaign will be used at every turn to expose the #tory and #labourparty alike as war criminals complicit in British #imperialism.
For healthcare, not warfare!
For books, not bombs!
Kick out the war criminals!
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I agree. But I'm also compelled to to point out Bell Laboratories as a notable exception. If for no other reason than that type of institution is almost unheard of in today's hedge fund/private equity economy. Back in the day They did tons of ground breaking research. Much of which was pure science, not just a product specific thing that could be brought to market in 18 months. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
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Alternative history. If the US had just given up at this point of war, all of (united) Korea would probably be in the same stage as Vietnam today. That is: just fine.
But they went on for 3 years. Killing 2-3 million Koreans to save them from communism.
Then they killed 1-3 million Vietnamese to try to save them from #communism and lost.
@santiago Russian imperialism didn't vanish in any year. The French stopped, the Germans stopped, the Brits stopped, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Portoguese, the Russians keep on going. And I for one wouldn't want to lay that on feet of communism except for stating that communism didn't change anything about this, not over night and not over half a century. And changing to stone age capitalism didn't improve things either. Russia is simply a shitty neighbor to have.
@zeri I wouldn’t say the French did stop much. It changed form. Countries are independent yet have a money tied to French power (see CFA franc). They surely are more subtle than Russia.
Seriously, let's say the #ww3 the US/EU/NATO/ISRAEL/UKRAINE have been provoking to start eventually starts and you are stuck in a country that you feel is in the wrong side of the war-front?
What do you do?
Engage in guerrilla warfare against the people around you who blindly conform to their state? Become vocal and suicidal as a peace activist? Run away to a strange country on the other side of the war front?
From my Cold War primary source shelves: J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit (1958) replete with high school student scholarship contest! #history#ColdWar#books#America#Communism