From: "Peter Jovanovic" <peterzoran-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Trotsky--cohn-bendit
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:35:44 +1100


hi all

Richard wrote:
>Material on how a revolution can be made from an anti-Leninist position, 
>and why Leninist organisation necessarily leads state capitalism would be 
>far more useful. I know some of this stuff exists but much of it especially 
>on the later point is old and too heavily reliant on the Russian 
>experience.

My suggestion for critiquing various Leninoids would not be to make a big 
deal about the historical crimes of Bolshevism. I find the anarchist fetish 
for Kronstadt quite boring. A better place to start would be with the 
destructive antics of the Trots in contemporary struggles. For example their 
attempts to water down the anti-summit protests so as to appeal to their 
favoured constituency of union bureaucrats and liberal intellectuals such as 
Naomi Klein and Susan George.

If Trots ever took power no doubt they would go for state capitalism but I 
don't think this is a real possibility these days. BTW I've been reading the 
recent pro-Situ manifesto/rant 'Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves' 
by Adrian Peacock recently. Peacock claims that the bourgeoisie is 
developing anarchism as a new counter-revolutionary ideology now that 
Leninism is a much less effective means of recuperation. That's stretching 
things a bit but there is certainly a tendency within anarchism to believe 
that the only way to be a revolutionary is to convert to anarchism. This is 
most noticeable among the various platformist parties but also with the 
Mao-oid wing of primitivism.

Any thoughts on '200 Pharaohs...' anyone?

cheers
peter


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