Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:54:37 +0200
From: Ilan Shalif <gshalif-AT-netvision.net.il>
Subject: Re: AUT: (en) A call for anarchists and other left      	 


Hi people.

fabian-AT-unpopular.demon.co.uk wrote:

> >Hi People
> >Leutha Blissett jumped to fast conclusion...
> >It was betwee the age 15 to 17 and 1/2.... 46 years ago ('-)
> >Ilan
> >
> >fabian-AT-unpopular.demon.co.uk wrote:
> >
> >> Ilan Shalif said:
> >>
> >> >For sure. I my self was orthodox Leninist for a while.
> >>
> >> Leutha Blissett
>
> I didn't really jump to any conclusions, I just thought it might be
> interesting to hear more about your illustrious past. i.e did you leave
> because of how the the events unfolded in '56 (Hungary, Egypt etc.)

I was a disciple of the lenino-Zionist version of youth movement
of Zionist leninist stalinist commune movement.

At about age 17 when I joined the commune and sent to a few
months seminar of activists, I encounter Mao writings and
found him more to my taste.

Only ten years later I dropped all elitist, vanguardist party politics
when I joined the Israeli libertarian communist organization
"Matspen".  And was expelled for this from the commune two years later.

So I am already 33 years on this road... just 5 years
ago discovered that there are some anarchist trends which
are also libertarian communists.

> How did
> these macro-political events intermesh with the micro-political aspects of
> sect life? Did a group of you break from orthodox Leninism together in
> order to continue political activity, or was this break for you an isolated
> act?

The Matspen collective was started 1962 after the famous 20th congress
USSR by people thrown out of the CP for asking too many questions.

> Perhaps your experiences might shed some light on what is happening in the
> post-Trotskyist scene - or are the phenomena quite different?

I had some experiance with the Lambartists and 4 international Trotskists
who used entrism and tried to overtake our organization that had
a good name in Israel and the world as the only real anti Zionist
organization in Israel.

Ilan
EMAC (East Mediterranean Anarchist Collective in construction)
http://www.shalif.com/psychology/
http://www.shalif.com/anarchy/
Tel-Aviv 61132 ISRAEL (Occupied Palestain)



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