Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 05:14:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Re: Top Anarchist Events of the Century


On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Erik wrote:

> Oh yes there is and it reads : True Anarchists don't Laugh

I can only think of a small handful of anarchists that think like that...
most of them have senses of humour. :)

> >> 5/ what platform ? (does anybody who is not a plaformist knows about this
> >> platform)
> >
> >The platform is more important than you think... mostly because
> >it caused discussion about the direction anarchist organization should
> >take, not that it was neccesarily the way to go.
> 
> Anarchist organisations are only a (small?) part of the anarchist
> mouvement. Discussion is alright and if people are honest enough to see it
> that way, fine by me. But i'm a bit wary of organistaion due to what
> happened f.i. before (se point 1 and 2). especially 1 should very well be
> kept in mind, because we anarchists like so much to blame it all on the
> stalinists.

Well, if youre saying Organization as what caused the Stalinists to beat
us, I disagree. I think we need organization to beat them... in the case
of Russia, the anarchists were very disorganized and thus were helpless
against the bolsheviks.. same as China, where they rejected organization
and lost as well.  In the case of Spain, the anarchists COULD have smashed
the stalinists early on, but the CNT leadership waffled and made deals
with the government. (oh yeah, this is, of course, 1 reason organizations
can suck!)

 - Jamal