Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:30:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Perplexing Ilan



> I am curious how you establish who the oppressors of
> tomorrow are. How do we
> know the trajectory of long-term struggle? Has
> someone worked this out? Is
> there a blueprint somewhere I can check to see which
> struggles to support
> today and which ones to oppose? 

Exactly right Thiago - we have no way of knowing these
things now. We can make some educated guesses, but to
pin the badge 'good revolutionary' to one chest and
'counter-revolutionary' to another, on the basis of
mere affiliation to one or naother ism, is simply
silly.
Anarchism has a less blemished banner than Leninism,
to be sure, but we should not forget, for instance,
the role of some anarchists in helping destroy the
Spanish revolution. Under Ilan's  criteria, this
calamitous act would rule anarchists as well as
Leninists out of the 'real proletarian movement'
forever...

 

===="Revolution is not like cricket, not even one day cricket"

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