Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:55:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: zhen dai <dai_zhen-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: petty anarchist marxist squabbling


This doesn't exactly fit in the normal national
liberation mode, but in China anarchists played a
significant role in the build up to the 1911
revolution.  And they did consider this to be a
revolutionary process that was trying to fight
imperialism.

--- Peter Jovanovic <peterzoran-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> hi all
> 
> Louis wrote:
> >than the theory itself is at fault. As far as
> anarchism is concerned, I 
> > >really have no knowledge of anarchists leading
> national liberation
> >movements in the 20th century.
> 
> In the 1875-78 uprising against the Ottomans in
> Bosnia-Hercegovina 
> anarchists were prominent. I think Kropotkin and
> Malatesta both joined or 
> tried to join the insurgents. In the Ilinden (St
> Elijah's day) uprising 
> against the Ottomans in Macedonia in 1903 anarchists
> played a leading role. 
> i have also read that Korean anarchists were
> prominent in the struggle 
> against Japanese occupation. of course these three
> examples were before the 
> period of Stalinist dominance. i don't know of any
> significant anarchist 
> involvement in national liberation struggles in the
> period 1945-75. However 
> anarchism was pretty marginal in the West at that
> time too.
> 
> There was a whole series of national liberation
> struggles against the 
> Ottoman empire in the Balkans starting with the
> first Serbian uprising of 
> 1804. These struggles took place before much of the
> rest of the world was 
> colonised. Does anyone know if there is any work
> comparing these national 
> liberation struggles with the later ones in Africa
> and Asia?
> 
> peter
> 
>
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