File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0108, message 107


Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:35:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Italy


On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, commie00 wrote:

> i wish it were true that all anarcho-syndicalists fought against fascism,
> but they didn't. in many anarchist accounts of fighting fascists in italy
> they talk about seeing old comrades on the other side, and how much that
> hurt.
> 
> i can't think of any references off the top of my head, but i'll try to seek
> them out.

So you have no references but it's just something you "heard".  See, it's
basicly a falicy spread by anti-syndicalists.
> 
> btw, i didn't say this to attack syndicalism, but just to help us keep in
> mind that anarchists, like any group of people, are wide and various. and
> the switch from anarchism to fascism does not necessarily mean a weakness in
> the ideas of anarchism, it just means that anarchists have been victims of
> fascist ideology like a lot of people. it doesn't matter if your a
> post-leftist or a syndicalist.

And it doesnt matter if you are a marxist or autonomist either, right?
Try to keep some wider perspective.. you tend to get narrow.



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