Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:28:54 +0000 From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk> Subject: An Anarchist FAQ updated (version 8.6) hello all "An Anarchist FAQ" webpage at has been updated. It can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ http://www.anarchistfaq.org/ http://www.anarchismfaq.org/ It has been updated on December 14th to mark the birth of the great Italian Anarchist Errrico Malatesta. An active anarchist militant and thinker of great power and influence, Malatesta was involved the struggle for a free society for over 50 years all across the world. He wrote one of the best introductions to the theory ever written (Anarchy) as well as presenting anarchism as a practical and realistic set of ideas. An Anarchist FAQ is an in depth introduction to anarchist ideas, ideals and history. Find out why anarchism is opposed to hierarchy, state and capitalism. Find out what different types of anarchism there is and why it is also called libertarian socialism. Find out why anarchists oppose the present system and what they aim to replace it with. In addition, visit the updated FAQ links page with over 500 links to anarchist webpages, organisations, papers, magazine, books, publishers and so on as well as many non-anarchist but related sites of interest. This can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/links.html The best one-stop place to discover the anarchist community on line. yours in solidarity Anarcho ***************************************** The Symbols of Anarchy Slight revision on the histories of the Black and Red-and-Black Flags. Includes Louise Michels comments on both the Black and Red flags and why the Black Flag ("the flag of strikes") may have become an anarchist symbol. Also shows that anarchists used the red-and-black flag in Mexico in the 1870s. Anarchism and Marxism Slight revisions to two parts of this appendix. Now quotes from the Paris Commune's "Declaration to the French People" in our discussion of "Why is Marxist 'class analysis' of anarchism contradictory?" This makes clearer the anarchistic nature of the Commune. In addition, the comment by Marx that revolution "from below" was "nonsense" has been added to the section on why SWP/ISO use of the expression "Socialism from below" is dishonest. Also a discussion of the Bolshevik hostility towards workers' councils in the 1905 Russian Revolution as another example of the ineffectiveness of the "vanguard" parties like the SWP.
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