Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:33:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: AUT: Anarchists Against Maoists


On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, commie00 wrote:

> > The anarchists do not "bloc" with Maoists. The maoists anrt welcome
> > because they are authoritarians, and most Leninists arnt interested int he
> > black bloc anyway.  It's too democratic for them.
> 
> unfortunately, this is not true. many anarchists of this sort like to work
> with refuse and resist maoists. and r&r maoists often march right beside the
> black blocs, more or less as part of a larger, tho undeclared,
> confrontational bloc. and on more than one occasion i have read praise from
> black blocers of "maoists who have shown themsevles, again, to be reliable
> comrades on the streets".

Simply not true. No anarchists work with Maoists, and the anarchists are
perticularly critical of Refuse and Resist, which they suspect of being a
front for the RCP.. however, this may nnot be true, since Refuse and
Resist is open to all anti-racist types, like marxists and autonomists,
for example.

The "paraise" you read from a "black blocker" was from Nicholas, who is
not an anarchist but is a leftist who likes to hang out with
anarchists.. yet he criticizes anarchists, or ignores their
criticisms of authoritarian marxism.  Nicholas puts out Barricada magazine
and he is the only person I have heard of who even suggests that black
blocs have any connection whatsoever with Refuse and Resist or
"maoists".

I have criticized Nicholas for writing such things in Barricada magazine
but he doesnt seem to really care. He wants to see the left all
together as one group, I suppose (very unrealistic).  Anarchists resist
this.

> and keep in mind that with the generalization of consensus based decision
> making in the streets, many leninists are willing to submit themselves to
> this model in order to gain influence.

Which is perhaps why there are leninist autonomists, too.

 - JH



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