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	Anarchism and Marxism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Even though anarchist communism and Marxism are two very different political philosophies, there is some similarity between the methodology and ideology of some anarchists and some Marxists, and the history of the two have often been intertwined.
		Marxism has a unique definition of the state: that the state is an organ of one class's repression of all other classes.
		Anarchism further contends that Marxism fails, and will always fail, because it creates a dictatorship of the coordinating class and that "dictatorship of the proletariat" is a logical impossibility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anarchism_and_Marxism (1585 words)

	Anarchism
		Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of social hierarchy.
		Even leftist anarchism and Marxism are two very different political philosophies, although there is some similarity between the methodology and ideology of some anarchists and some Marxists, and the history of the two have often been intertwined.
		Anarchism had a large influence on French Symbolism of the late 19th century, such as that of Stéphane Mallarmé, who was quoting as saying "La vraie bombe c'est le livre" (the true bomb is the book) and infiltrated the cafes and cabarets of turn of the century Paris (see the Drunken Boat #2).
	www.askfactmaster.com /Anarchism (9648 words)

	Anarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus "anarchism," in its most general meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.
		Anarchism also refers to related philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of coercive institutions.
		While big 'A' Anarchism referred to ideological Anarchists, small 'a' anarchism was applied to their methodological counterparts; those who viewed anarchism as "a way of acting, or a historical tendency against illegitimate authority." As an anti-ideological position, small 'a' anarchism shares some similarities with post-left anarchy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anarchism (7040 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Saul Newman, "Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anarchism was able to develop a wholly autonomous and specific theory of state power and political authority — one that was irreducible to the Marxist class and economic analysis.
		The conflict between Marxism and anarchism over the power, function and relative autonomy of the state, and its role in a social revolution, was a pivotal debate that shaped nineteenth-century radical political thought.
		Marxism is caught, one could argue, in a reductionist logic that cannot adequately account for the specificity of political domination.
	info.interactivist.net /article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1537224 (5450 words)

	Anti-capitalism and anarchism
		Marxism and anarchism represent the main political currents on the far left.
		Though Chomsky is frequently identified for his sympathy for anarchism, when pressed he has hesitated to present more than a general sense of contempt for the state and a celebration for mass creativity among the population.
		Anarchism today is not the same as it was a year ago, or a decade ago.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/357-07-bakan.html (1102 words)

	RED GUIDE: Anarchism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All forms of anarchism share with Marxism an opposition to exploitation and an understanding of the state as an instrument by which the ruling social class protects its privileged position.
		Anarchism developed amongst the ranks of the peasantry, craftsmen and small business owners in the nineteenth century, in response to the spread of industrial capitalism and the increased power of the modern capitalist state.
		The core of anarchism may well be the “cult of the natural, the spontaneous, the individual” (Woodcock), but as this ideology interacted with different social conditions and movements, a wide variety of conclusions were drawn.
	www.swp.ie /resources/Anarchism.htm (1301 words)

	Marxism and Anarchism
		The founders of both Anarchism and Marxism all came out of the dissolution of the Young Hegelians in the 1840s, during the revolutionary upheavals that swept across Europe and destroyed the “Old Order”.
		Among the Marxists who fought against the syndicalist anti-party disposition of the workers, and in favour of the formation of a socialist party, in the early 20th century was John Maclean.
		(Anarchism of the libertarian variety has a long history of support in the Russian aristocracy, counting Leo Tolstoy among its numbers.) Kropotkin was the most prominent anarchist of the years leading up to the Revolution, but he is not a significant figure for the anarchism of the post-revolutionary period.
	www.marxists.org /subject/anarchism (2730 words)

	Anarchism and Marxism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If the real differences between anarchism and Marxism were raised, it would involve many Marxists questioning their own political ideology and tradition, its history and its practice.
		By rubbishing anarchism, the leadership of the party can maintain their position as the only "real" socialist theory, with the main opposing theory portrayed in such a negative manner that no self-respecting socialist would even give it the time of day.
		So anarchism is based on the obvious principle that capitalist means cannot be put to socialist ends and it recognises what is considered "efficient" from a capitalist perspective may not be so from a socialist one.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/talks/marxism.html (11788 words)

	Anarchism and Marxism-Leninism
		The founding ideologists of anarchism were the British social philosopher William Godwin (1756-1836), the German 'Max Stirner' (pseudonym of Johann Schmidt) (1806-56), the French Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-65), and the Russians Mikhail Bakunin (1814-76) and (Prince) Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921).
		That is to say, according to the tenets of Marxism, the emancipation of the individual is impossible until the masses are emancipated.
		Since anarchism rejects the principles of scientific socialism, of Marxism-Leninism, it can play only a negative, reactionary, disruptive role in the struggle for socialism.
	www.oneparty.co.uk /html/anarchy.html (2290 words)

	Anarchism, Marxism And Renewing Socialism From Below \| NEFAC
		Anarchism is attractive for a new layer of radicalising activists, especially those working within the global justice movement.
		The growth of contemporary anarchism is related to the growing anti-capitalist sentiment amongst activists and their commitment to using more effective means of struggle.
		While there is a history of differences between Marxism and anarchism that should not be obscured, their current relationship must be shaped by the demands of the present political period.
	www.nefac.net /node/85 (3569 words)

	Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future
		Many people are familiar with the introduction you wrote in 1970 to Daniel Guerin's Anarchism, but more recently, for instance in the film Manufacturing Consent, you took the opportunity to highlight again the potential of anarchism and the anarchist idea.
		That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.
		It is, but that's because I don't think either the concept of anarchism or of participatory democracy is clear enough to be able to answer the question whether they are the same.
	www.zmag.org /chomsky/interviews/9505-anarchism.html (4403 words)

	Reply to errors and distortions in the SWP's "Marxism and Anarchism" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thus anarchism rejects authority in the sense, to use Malatesta's words, of "the delegation of power, that is the abdication of initiative and sovereignty of all into the hands a few." [Anarchy, p.
		Anarchism clearly means support for freedom and equality and so all forms of hierarchical organisation (such as the state and the capitalist workplace) and authoritarian social relationship (such as sexism, racism, homophobia and wage labour) must be abolished.
		Anarchism has learned from that struggle and influenced it by its generalisations of previous experiences and its basis in opposing hierarchy.
	www.illuminati.ch /anarchy/faq/append34.html (20290 words)

	Noam Chomsky / Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future
		On the one hand, the experience of the Spanish Revolution is, you say, a good example of 'anarchism in action'.On the other, you have also stressed that the Spanish revolution is a good example of what workerscan achieve through their own efforts using participatory democracy.
		It is, butthat's because I don't thinkeither the concept of anarchism or of participatory democracy is clearenough to be able to answerthe question whether they are the same.
		The tendencies in anarchism that I've alwaysfound mostpersuasive seek a highly organised society, integrating many different kindsof structures (workplace,community, and manifold other forms of voluntary association), butcontrolled by participants, not bythose in a position to give orders (except, again, when authority can bejustified, as is sometimes thecase, in specific contingencies).
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /chomsky_anarchism_marxism.html (2418 words)

	Marxism vs. Anarchism
		Watching it, it seemed to make sense with the rules that were given, however when thinking back on the game, if some of the rules had been altered, say, no fines, people would have been much greedier and more competitive right from the start.
		This is similar to the way that Marx viewed the class structure as what kept society from equality, anarchism saw the state as enemy number one in obstruction a person from reaching their full potential.
		All in all Marxism calls for complete equality and Anarchsim calls for individualists that a working towards a common goal.
	marxismvs.blogspot.com (1867 words)

	What are the differences between Marxism and Anarchism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The debate was entitled "Marxism or Anarchism?" although it would have been better called "Leninism or Anarchism?" I've made a few clarification to the text at a few points in light of the subsequent contributions at the meeting, but the text is approximately 95% the same.
		He argued that "of all ideologies, anarchism is the most fundamentally anti-democratic in principle, since it is not only unalterably hostile to democracy in general but particularly to any socialist democracy of the most ideal kind that could be imagined." Such as argument is, of course, just ridiculous.
		Ultimately, the real differences between anarchism and Marxism is that we have totally different ideas of what socialism would look like and how to get there.
	anarchism.ws /writers/anarcho/left/marxismanarchism.html (4814 words)

	Anarchism and Marxism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MARXISM and Anarchism have been the two major theories of revolutionary socialism since the middle of the last century.
		Both believe that the ideas in peoples' heads are shaped by the social and economic conditions in which we live.
		At a deeper level there are ambiguities at the very heart of Marxism.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws93/marx39.html (1589 words)

	Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To paraphrase Gray, what is conspicuous in Marxism is the denial of the possibility that a "special institution" which exists "to discipline itself as well as other classes" in fact means those in charge of the "proletarian" state power are, in fact, the new ruling class.
		Marxism], however, grew out of the philosophic, historical and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of the propertied classes, the intellectuals.
		As such, Gray inadvertently exposes one of the central fallacies of Marxism: it claims to desire a society based on equality and the participation of everyone yet favours a forms of organisation -- representation and centralisation -- that precludes that equality and participation.
	anarchism.ws /writers/anarcho/Bakunin_critique.html (8881 words)

	Anarchism and Marxism - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lenin further argued that Imperialism was thus ultimately a good thing because it brought advanced western technology to backward and primitive nations and would speed up the global industrialization process - and thus bring about the global revolution which Marx had predicted.
		At the beginning of the 20th century many Marxists and anarchists were united within syndicalist movements for militant revolutionary trade unions (see: De Leonism, IWW).
		More over, a large number of political groups (notably the Wobblies) attempt a synthesis of Marxist and anarchist traditions with the aim of a liberated workers society.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Anarchism_and_Marxism (1483 words)

	Books
		Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left by Murray Bookchin.
		His main argument was that current scientific knowledge and technology had made it possible to establish more or less immediately a decentralised society which would not only eliminate material want but also allow the state and hierarchies to be dissolved and money to be abolished.
		He is on very weak ground here as, contrary to classical anarchism (indeed, some other anarchists regard him as not being an anarchist for this), he is in favour of those who want a decentralised, classless, stateless society participating in local elections.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/aug00/booksaug.html (1154 words)

	Plain Anarchism, Marxist Anarchism and Anarchist Marxism (1969) - Melbourne Anarchist Archives
		A major source of tension between anarchists and left socialists is the latter's misapprehension of the relation between anarchism and marxism.
		The attitude of the anarchists in the first international (I.W.M.A.) is the real indicator of the difference between marxism and anarchism.
		The solution to this political impotence of anarchism - to some extent a revision of anarchism - was found in France.
	www.takver.com /history/melb/maa34.htm (1833 words)

	Why we must further Marxism and not Anarchism
		They learn Anarchism is a form of Socialism, they learn they have much in common with Marxists, they learn the state must be smashed, they learn the state is a tool of suppression used by one class against another.
		Anarchism is an expression of impotence, which can offer no way out.
		Of course, the reason why some honest workers and young people turn towards anarchism is because of their revulsion against Stalinism and the bureaucratic and class collaborationist policies of the existing leaderships, both on the political and trade union field.
	newyouth.com /archives/theory/why_marxism_not_anarchism_20010107.asp (1906 words)

	Saul Newman, "Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Given the theoretical proximity between anarchism and post-Marxism, it is perhaps surprising that this connection is not explored by Laclau and Mouffe — particularly since, as I have suggested above, classical anarchism was able to offer, as a radical alternative to Marxism, a wholly autonomous theory of the state and political power.
		I have tried to explore the emergence of this terrain, suggesting that it may be seen as arising from the crucial innovation of classical anarchist theory itself: the theorisation of an autonomous and specific political sphere that was irreducible to a Marxist class and economic analysis.
		As I have shown, anarchism took Marx's notion of the Bonapartist State to its logical conclusion, thus developing a theory of state power and sovereignty as an entirely autonomous and specific domain, around which different political struggles could be constellated.
	slash.autonomedia.org /comments.pl?sid=3394&cid=1594 (3568 words)

	African anarchism - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For a broader discussion see Anarchism and African politics.
		To a greater or lesser extent, all of [...] traditional African societies manifested “anarchic elements” which, upon close examination, lend credence to the historical truism that governments have not always existed.
		Genocide (Rwandan Genocide), warlord situations, and starvation can be linked to a state of anarchy when the previous government falls.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/African_anarchism (454 words)

	H.2 What parts of anarchism do Marxists particularly misrepresent? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These meetings are usually entitled "Marxism and Anarchism" and are usually organised after anarchists have been active in the area or have made the headlines somewhere.
		If they read Marxist "critiques" of anarchism they will soon discover the same repetition of "accepted" truths, the same inadequate documentation, the same arbitrary declarations and conclusions as well as an apparent total lack of familiarity with the source material they claim to be analysing.
		If Marxism is held out to be indeed the basic working class philosophy, and the proletariat cannot owe its emancipation to anyone but itself, it is hard to go back on it and say that the working class is not yet ready to dispense with authority placed over it.
	www.anarchistfaq.de /secH2.html (18009 words)

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