About anarchism, Part I: Where does anarchism come from?

Where does anarchism come from? No one can give a better explanation than the paper The Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communist movement made ​​by Makhnovists in the Russian Revolution. They show:

"The class struggle created by slave labor and gave birth to their aspirations of freedom, the oppression, the idea of ​​anarchism: the idea of ​​a total denial of the social system based on the principles of class and nation, and its replacement by non-state society of free workers, under the management private.

"So, anarchism is not derived from the abstract reflections of an intellectual or a philosopher, but from the direct struggle of workers against capitalism, of the needs and the needs of workers, of their aspirations for freedom and equality, aspirations which become particularly alive in the best heroic period in the life and struggle the working masses.

"Well-known anarchist thinkers, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and others, did not find the idea of anarchism, but get it in the center of mass, and is really helped by the power of thought and knowledge to define and expand it." (P. 15-16)

As the anarchist movement in general, Makhnovist is a mass movement of workers against the force of authority, both red (Communist) and White (tsarist / capitalist) in Ukraine from 1917 to 1921. As written by Peter Marshall "Anarchism ... has traditionally been a major supporter of workers and peasants." (Demanding the Impossible, p 652)

Anarchism is created, and by the struggle of the oppressed for freedom. For Kropotkin, for example, "Anarchism ... beginning with the day-to-day struggle" and "anarchist movement is updated every time he received an impression from some of the great practical lesson: the source of the decrease is the study of life itself". [Evolution and Environment, terms of 58 and 57] For Proudhon, the "evidence" of thought mutualisnya located in the "current practice, revolutionary practice" of "the trade unions ... are formed spontaneously in Paris and Lyon ... (shows that) the union of the honorable and the trade unions counted as one and the same. "(No Gods, No Masters, vol. 1, p. 59-60) In fact, as the opinion of a historian, there is" a close similarity between the associational ideals of Proudhon ... and the program mutualist Lyon "and there" a good convergence (among the ideas), and maybe that Proudhon able to articulate a more coherent positive program as examples of silk workers in Lyon. Socialist ideals that he fought for have been realized, to some extent, by the workers. "[K.Steven Vicent, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Rise of French Republican Socialism, p 64]

So anarchism comes from the struggle for freedom and our desire to create a very human life, so we have time to live, love and play. It was not created by some people who divorced from life, is in the ivory tower and look down to the community and pass judgment based on his thoughts about what is right and what went wrong. Anarchism is more as a result of working class struggle and resistance to authority, oppression and exploitation. As Albert Meltzer said, "there will never be theoreticians of anarchism, (a) who co-writer and copy what has been done in practice by the workers and peasants; he was linked by bourgeois historians as being a leader, and a row by the historian bourgeoisie as a leader, and by successive bourgeois writers (citing the bourgeois historians) because it is one more case that proves that the working classes rely to the leader of the bourgeois. "(Anarchism: Arguments for and againts, p 10-12)

In view of all the work of the author anarchist Kropotkin was to "make general statements about the principles (anarchism), as well as scientific and theoretical basis of his teachings" derived from the experience of the working class in struggle as well as analysis of the evolutionary trend in society at large. (Op. cit., p 57)

But the trend and community organizations in anarkistik existed long before Proudhon wrote it in 1840 and declared himself an anarchist. In the meantime, anarchism as a political theory of birth coincided with the rise of capitalism (Anarchism "emerged in the late 18th century ... [and] accept the challenge of changing both the capital and the state." [Peter Marshall, op.cit., P 4]) Writer Anarchists have been analyzing the history of liberal tendencies. Kropotkin argued, for example, "there has always been the anarchists and the static. [Op.cit. Case 16] In Mutual Aid (and elsewhere) Kropotkin analyzed the liberal aspects of the community before and record things that succeed in the implementation ( to some degree) anarchist organization or aspects of anarchism. Especially in the case of natives, for example most of the native American tribes organize themselves in anarkistik behavior.

Kropotkin acknowledged the tendency of actual examples of anarchistic thought to precede the creation of an anarchist movement "official" and argued that:

From the most remote antiquity, men (and women) have realized crime generated by letting some of their own personal power ... and as a result they developed in the primitive clan, village communities, medieval guild ... and finally in the city in Middle Ages, because such institutions are able to make their lives against the disruption of their better-and wealth of attacking foreigners, and members of their clan who struggled to maintain his personal power. "(Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets, p 158-159)

Kropotkin put the struggle of the workers (from which the growth of modern anarchism) at the same level with other forms of older popular organizations. He argues that "... the result of joint working the same resistance against the growing power of a minority of people-in this case is a capitalist" as in the clan, rural communities and others, as well as "the activities of 'factions' in Paris and all major cities, as well as small gatherings during the French Revolution of 1793 which terfederasi freely, completely independent. "(op.cit., p. 159)

So, despite the political theory of anarchism as an expression of working class struggle against capitalism and self-activity and the modern state, anarchism thinking constantly reveals itself in all of human existence. Most of the native population in North America and elsewhere, for example, practiced anarchism for hundreds of thousands of years before anarchism emerged as a political theory. Same as above, and the setting anarkistik trend has existed in every major revolution-New England Town Meeting during the American Revolution, 'factions' in Parisian French Revolution, the workers councils and committees of the company during the Russian Revolution are just a few examples (see The Third Murray Bookchin Revolution paper for more details). Expected if anarchism is the result of resistance to authority, then any society without rulers will bring up resistance to it and move the inclination anarkistik (and, of course, a society without rulers would be anarchistic)

In other words, anarchism is an expression of the struggle against oppression and exploitation, a generalization of the workers' experience and analysis of what is wrong with the current system and a statement of hope and dreams for a better future. This struggle existed before the so-called anarchism, but in the history of the anarchist movement (eg a group of people who call anarchism thoughts and aims to achieve an anarchist society) is essentially a result of working class struggle against capitalism and state oppression and exploitation, and to a free society with equal and free individuals.

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