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		Spontaneity is a manner of speech, attesting to our inability to treat the social phenomena of capitalism In a scientific, empirical way." (1)
		The worst thing about 'spontaneism' is that it has become identified as a definitive tenet of anarchism.
		History has painfully taught us that whilst workers can create new forms of organisation suited to their needs, and can become politicised rapidly, it is also true that all manner of political ideas can gain mass influence.
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	Ernest Mandel: Leninist Theory of Organisation (Chap.6)
		This distinction is made according to objective criteria (revolutionary program, bringing this program to the masses, revolutionary practice, etc.), and the spontaneous combativity of the masses is consciously preferred to the actions or even the existence of conservative reformist mass organisations.
		Yet the correction, or better yet completion, of his theory of organisation, which Lenin undertook after 1914 was not a step backward to the worship of “pure” spontaneity, but rather a step forward toward distinguishing between the revolutionary party and organisation in general.
		Now, instead of saying that the purpose of the party is to develop the political class consciousness of the working class, the formula becomes much more precise: The function of the revolutionary vanguard consists in developing revolutionary consciousness in the vanguard of the working class.
	www.marxists.org /archive/mandel/196x/leninism/ch06.htm (1211 words)

	Class Composition and the Theory of the Party... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the paper industry there had been the highest incidence of permanent disability arising from workplace accidents and the famous German labour unions were more or less absent from the textile and paper sectors: these workers were not to obtain their first contract until in 1919, after the overthrow of the monarchy.
		This, however, had to emphasise spontaneity, as a means of challenging trade unions' institutional possibilities of controlling the struggle process in terms of individual actions (daily tactics) and in its overall line.
		It was necessary to free the term "spontaneity" of its anarchistic content, and the term "politics" of its bureaucratic and ummilitant connotations.
	www.emery.archive.mcmail.com /public_html/sergio_bologna/classcom.html (11361 words)

	MARXISM, PREFIGURATIVE COMMUNISM, AND THE PROBLEM OF WORKERS' CONTROL - Carl Boggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leninism always stressed the danger of "spontaneity" and the need for a centralized and disciplined organization to correct the immobilism of the "open" parties of the Second International.
		It seeks to by-pass the extremes of vanguardism and spontaneism by participating within and extending the forms of bourgeois democracy (elections, parliament, local governments, trade unions).
		the new left was close to traditional anarchism in its glorification of spontaneity and subjectivity, in its celebration of everyday life, and in its hostility to "politics" and all forms of organization.
	www.geocities.com /cordobakaf/boggs.html (9315 words)

	The communist origins of anarchism - International History of anarchism - Anarkismo
		As communism represents the inevitable result of human history, as long as it is reached spontaneously as a result of certain inescapable factors such as Man's own inclinations and the laws which govern nature, there is a total absence in Kropotkin of any trace of political strategy.
		For the anarcho-communists, organization is "a bourgeois phenomenon" which, by compressing spontaneity, carries us further from the final result and impedes the development of the goodness of human nature and its tendency towards positive self-organization.
		Neither does their action, unlike that of the anarchist communists, have to form part of the process of political growth of the working class and its allies, derected at the riappropriation of the capacity for self-organization of the struggles and of society.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=38&fontsizeinc=2 (1850 words)

	Workers Without Bosses - Workers' Self-Management in Argentina - South America Workplace struggles - Anarkismo
		This is the main controversial issue in a broad movement that is united by the will of the workers to keep their employment, but at the same time, of changing radically the relationships of dependency, hierarchy and exploitation, into relationships of mutual aid and equality (wages are all equal in those factories).
		But remaining with spontaneity, they were unable to develop a political project that could have given coherence in the long term to the whole experience of organisation from the bottom up.
		Once again, we saw that spontaneity could topple the government (as in Ecuador, as in Bolivia -though this last is a peculiar situation, anyway), and that spontaneity CAN creat new social structures and new forms of struggle.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=627 (4805 words)

	Michel Doret Artist Statement - Premiere Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com
		During the past two years, our efforts were aimed mainly to the promotion of Primitive Surrealism of Total Art, New Art and the production of documentary videos.
		We feel irresistibly compelled not barely to mention the so-called Spontaneism but to call attention on this new discovery.
		Although many don’t grow up and remain their entire life as they were at a certain point of their development, others feel at a certain point of their existence an urge to ascertain the reality of their existence as well as their potentialities.
	www.absolutearts.com /portfolios/m/micheldoret/artist_statement.html (838 words)

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		Basing themselves on what is, to be sure, the decisive historical and political reality of unequal development and the undeniably imperialist and neo-colonialist bias of much metropolitan-based theory, the "left" postmodernists we have surveyed here all, to one degree or another, proceed to distort this reality into a new irrationalist and spontaneist myth.
		Marginality is postulated as a condition which, purely by virtue of its objective %situation%, spontaneously gives rise to the %subversive particularity% upon which postmodern politics pins its hopes.
		[37] Spontaneism, however it may drape itself in populist slogans and admiration for the people's day to day struggle for survival, etc., rests on an intellectual distrust of the masses, a view of the mass as beyond the reach of reason and hence to be guided by myth.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.990/larsen.990 (4226 words)

	Women's Estate by Juliet Mitchell 1971
		This line is a belief in spontaneity, whether the spontaneity of ‘feelings’ or the spontaneity of violence.
		Spontaneity is a mode which women are particularly liable to develop.
		It is nearly always middle-class intellectuals who become infatuated with the type of personal, individual liberation which takes this form, who find the seductive opposite to their own repressed or sublimated lives in the outbursts of violence or ‘offensiveness’.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/mitchell1.htm (3965 words)

	Spurious: The Sound of the Crowd
		Never do you dream of leaving the privacy of your dwelling place for the streets, those same streets where others may gather in their boredom and where flames the trail which might bear you to the future.
		Surfascism: this was the accusatory word thrown at Bataille after his attempt alongside the Surrealists, to turn French workers away from fascism by drawing on the same forces to which fascism unleashed.
		But the word might name a way of linking the common presence of the crowd with a political party, a spontaneous refusal without limits to the revolutionary fire which would sweep the old world away.
	spurious.typepad.com /spurious/2005/03/what_boredom_no.html (940 words)

	Bordiga versus Pannekoek - Introduction
		There is a basic tension in the belief that workers become revolutionary spontaneously, purely from their own individual experiences and the fact that this belief itself is held and propagated by a minority of politically active councilists (for example).
		The conceptions of the councilists developed not spontaneously, but through a confrontation with Marx, Luxembourg, Kautsky, Lenin, through reading, and political discussion, and not just participation in a strike, or strike movement.
		The tension between spontaneity and conscious minorities has been a continuing problematic for the German left, and has tended to find a resolution in liquidation.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/3909/bordiga/bvpintro.html (8630 words)

	10164026
		Laclau and Mouffe take their idea of the spontaneous from Deleuze and Guattari (the "intensities") and from Lyotard ("libidinal economy").
		Desire is the zone of the spontaneous: outside any and all "examinations"; it is the "excess" of representation.
		The point that Holstun is unable to get because he cannot see beyond the "local" which drives him "crazy" is that politics is not simply a "spontaneous" demonstration against the Korean Police.
	www.etext.org /Politics/AlternativeOrange/5/v5n2_p/10164026.html (491 words)

	Chamsy Ojeili - The "Advance Without Authority": Post-modernism, Libertarian Socialism, and Intellectuals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Conversely, the failures of the spontaneous movements of proletarian unrest in the 1917-1923 period led some thinkers back to the problems of politics and culture.
		For those inclined towards spontaneism, it was the logic of the historical process that educated the working class and generated the movement towards socialism.
		Castoriadis was more critical of the illusions of spontaneism and he did not allow the fear of Jacobinism to eclipse the political dimension.
	www.democracynature.org /dn/vol7/ojeili_intellectuals.htm (8979 words)

	May 1968: Beginning of an Era (2) (Situationist International)
		In addition to the SI itself and to a good number of individuals who acknowledged its theses and acted accordingly, many others defended situationist perspectives, whether unconsciously or as a result of direct influence, because those perspectives were to a large extent objectively implied by the present era of revolutionary crisis.
		We knew that this objectively possible and necessary revolutionary movement had begun from a subjectively very low level: spontaneous and fragmented, unaware of its own past and of its overall goals, it was reemerging after a half century of repression and in the face of its still firmly entrenched bureaucratic and bourgeois vanquishers.
		But the fortunate conjunction of spontaneous revolutionary improvisation with a sort of aura of sympathy that existed around the SI made possible the coordination of a rather widespread action, not only in Paris but in several large cities, as if there had been a preexisting nationwide organization.
	www.bopsecrets.org /SI/12.era2.htm (6324 words)

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		Which is not to say that the working class is already revolutionary and could have staged a revolution if it were not for the petty-bourgeois misleaderships.
		In reality workers cannot spontaneously arrive at a revolutionary consciousness without the active intervention in their struggles of a revolutionary vanguard.
		Spontaneism is `workerism' - a form of idealism.
	www.kmf.org /malecki/cockroach/cr00068.txt (4298 words)

	Preparation for a new resistance: C.P.M.
		The study group concluded that there was a need to go beyond the spontaneous level of struggle in the factory, and to raise the level to that of the anti-revisionist and anti-imperialist struggle.
		The decision by the IBM study group to join CPM at this point came out of their understanding that to make this qualitative political leap to anti-imperialism and anti-revisionism, the factory movement needed to go beyond the political and organizational limitations of the C.U.B. and factory study group forms of struggle.
		The proletariat has gone through the first stage of struggle: that of spontaneous clashes everywhere and anywhere, where it's go for broke, risking everything, and it now begins to understand that the class struggle is like a war.
	www.kersplebedeb.com /mystuff/italy/strike_one_3.html (3991 words)

	Spurious: Analysis vs. Unification
		One might think the celebration of May 1968 in so many French writes and thinkers is subject to Lenin’s critique of spontaneism.
		Perhaps Žižek is right to insist that a party organisation is necessary – that unification will permit the organisation of a politics that doesn’t simply peter out.
		Against a model of stages, where the revolutionary movement is seen to need mass spontaneity in the first stage and centralism in the second (as in the Soviet experience), Deleuze provocatively writes that ‘From the outset we should be more centralist than the centralists’.
	spurious.typepad.com /spurious/2004/03/analysis.html (555 words)

	[A-List] Re:Value (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		posing 'social priorities' explicitly against the working of the law of value", and called it "Voluntarism, spontaneism, defying the working of the Law of Value...
		it was Trotsky himself who criticised the spontaneism of Stalin's 5-Year Plans, arguing that the USSR could not avoid 'the background chatter of Value around its borders' and that Stalin's attempt to defy the economic laws of gravity could only be accomplished by bureaucratic coercion..." [a reference to Trotsky using these words would be helpful].
		posing 'social priorities' explicitly against the working of the law of value", and called it "Voluntarism, spontaneism, defying the working of the Law of Value...
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-December/022170.html (2942 words)

	New Socialist Group: What Kind of Socialist Organization?
		Spontaneism essentially disavows responsibility for socialist organization by declaring that everything will be sorted out spontaneously by the working class and oppressed groups—some day, some time.
		Spontaneism is fatalistic in character; it calls on people to await some grand historic moment when a great, almost mystical, break-through will occur.
		It needs a new departure which is sharply differentiated from the three traditions outlined at the start of this document (parliamentary reformism, sectism, and spontaneism).
	www.newsocialist.org /newsite/index.php?id=80 (3644 words)

	Terrorism and the difficult road to a general revival of the class struggle II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In his long and determined struggle for the formation of the class party, Lenin had to combat both economist spontaneism and the voluntarism of the theoreticians and practitioners of violence and terror divorced from the general class struggle.
		More rarely, and secondarily, it has found these roots in an elementary and spontaneous reaction (the first secret Societies, for example) of the nascent working class against the upheaval of all traditional living and working conditions caused by the primitive accumulation of capital and the development of big industry.
		Indeed in 1874 Marxists condemned mercilessly the voluntarism that reigned among the exiled Blanquists.
	www.sinistra.net /lib/upt/compro/liqa/liqamcebie.html (8943 words)

	The Communist Origins Of Anarchism \| North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Kropotkinist anarcho-communist theory, in fact, the aim of revolutionary action is always a society where "everyone gives according to their ability and everyone receives according to their needs", in other words - communism.
		Furthermore, once it has been freed from capitalist dominion, scientific progress (which capitalist domination uses to distance Man from nature) will be a potent factor in the formation of communism.
		In consequence, this second tradition has historically been willing to engage in adventuristic practices which do not necessarily exclude the possibility of terrorism, and to link itself to the propagandists of individual action who do not have to answer to any type of mass organization.
	nefac.net /node/795 (1646 words)

	Situationist International Online
		The provides an opportunity to clarify several aspects the SI's organization in the past and in the present.
		Notably, this includes dispelling the strange myth of our hierarchical and dictatorial organization, which amusingly accompanies the other myth — strongly contradicted by every single one our texts — according to which we are advocates of a pure spontaneism when it comes to mass action.
		The most fantastic sketch of the SI's supposed evolution toward centralism can be found in the article — monstrous in every regard — published in issue 12 of the journal Communications, by Robert Estivals, a researcher at the CNRS.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/si/8th.html (904 words)

	Marxism message, Re: CLJ James and Workers Councils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James was always concerned with the problem of leadership, and he does analyze the emergence of leaders out of spontaneous movements.
		James continued to believe that vanguard parties were still relevant for non-industrial societies, but had become obsolete in highly industrialized societies where workers could organize themselves far faster and more effectively than a traditional party could organize over a painful span of years.
		Also, I think his so-called "spontaneism" requires closer analysis.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/1995-08-28.000/msg00073.htm (779 words)

	Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight (Fwd from Louis Proyect)
		You however seem to think that taking part in ongoing class struggles will lead to a revolution (we are talking here about a socialist revolution!) by itself.
		This is the kind of spontaneism which Lenin always and ardently fought against.
		What is if not outright idealist so at least mechanical materialist ans metaphysical in reality is to neatly separate thinking from 'the living class struggle'.
	www.mail-archive.com /leninist-international@lists.wwpublish.com/msg00352.html (742 words)

	ARTicles: Rene -- Alliez -- Anti-Oedipus — Thirty Years On
		In Badiou’s eyes, this ambiguity is corroborated by the fact that Deleuze does not endow politics with any kind of theoretical autonomy, thus leading to the permanent threat of a spontaneous deviation or drift (dérive), embodied by what he calls the ‘anarcho-désirants’.
		He writes: ‘it is objected that by releasing desire from lack and law, the only thing we have left to refer to is a state of nature, a desire which would be natural and spontaneous reality.
		This is the key thesis of the Anti-Oedipus, according to which, from a materialist point of view, there can be no Expression (of the ‘full body’ of the world) without Construction of assemblages of desire or ‘desiring machines’, which free Life in the processual (i.e non-totalising) and performativeidentity between production and product.
	www.16beavergroup.org /mtarchive/archives/001578.php (2170 words)

	Preliminaries on Councils and Councilist Organization (Rene Riesel)
		It can thus be seen that this form appeared spontaneously at the beginning of the strike movement.
		And this movement, which began to fall back in the next few days, was to surge forward again up to the great historic crisis when on October 7 the railroad workers, beginning in Moscow, spontaneously began to stop the railway traffic.
		The ease with which the spontaneous organization of the proletariat in struggle wins its first victories is often the prelude to a second phase in which counterrevolution works from the inside, in which the movement lets go of its reality in order to pursue the illusion that amounts to its defeat.
	www.bopsecrets.org /SI/12.councils.htm (3970 words)

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