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ip of the ideas of socialism solidarity and freedom in the broad sense and the ideas of direct democracy and critical involvement by working people we believe that direct democracy and critical thinking are indigenous to every popular movement and that it is obedience and hierarchy that are brought from without but those seeds are planted in people s mind way before any particular organization tries to strangle the movement that being the case the anarchist organization must seek to raise the questions and to challenge those authoritarian and hierarchical tendencies _______________________________________________________________ i know i barely said much in this post but it is enormous as it is and i ve been working on it for a long time i ll just post this here now and get back to it to something like this kwangju 1980 with real possibility of winning the role of left wing naysayers a response to on the occupy oakland november 2 general strike 01 tuesday nov 2011 posted by theleftwinger in analysis anarchism leave a comment tags anarchist program capitalism class general strike in the news machete408 oakland revolutionaries there is not going to be a general strike in oakland something is going to happen it s going to be large beautiful and inspiring but it is not going to be a general strike and that s perfectly fine a weaver from machete408 in his post on the occupy oakland november 2 general strike makes the argument that for radicals who have been around the proverbial organizing block i would urge caution to avoid falling into the role of being the left naysayers of the movement just as under capitalism all that is solid melts into air all that is holy is profaned in times of upheaval and crisis events that never seemed possible suddenly become so people who are unpoliticized or only have nascent consciousness become radicalized and people who are already politicized begin to identify with revolutionary politics the lack of organic connections to more politically defined political militants leaves these newly radicalized layers to flail in the wind and take many political missteps grow cynical or be swept into the first organization that seems to offer a ready baked formula for radical change there is a tremendous amount of energy in oakland right now walking downtown you can feel it in the air the police walks on a different kind of edge the suits walk scared the politicos hide their faces from the camera and sneak from the back of city hall there is a flurry of activity from leftists to unionists to community activists are spreading the word about the strike action and engaging people in conversations about our current situation and capitalism the energy is building up and the word is on the tip of everyone s tongue unions are in different levels trying to get their people out there or at least symbolically supporting the strike something will happen it will just not be a general strike it will not be a general strike because for many people the occupy movement still something they experience through the television there is sense of them over there people camping out and going to rallies every night and us here people going to work every day and being spectators the argument that in times of upheaval and crisis events that never seemed possible suddenly become so fails to take into account that these times of crisis and upheaval are generally escalations although build up has been happening it has still not broken the barrier of alienation people are still isolated and terrified of their bosses people are still disconnected the call for a general strike might have be a hasty one specially since it only gave one week for preparation and build up but it has forced the issue of participation in capitalism and the power of working people to change things to the forefront it has forces radicals inside the unions the examine the work that they are doing and take a stance either this is revolutionary work and my job as a revolutionary is to push my union to participate on this regardless of bureaucracy or being in the union is just my day job and that s the end of that it has forced the union to take a stance in supporting the action or be deemed irrelevant it has shattered the confidence of many people in the electoral route for change and it has instilled in people the confidence that they can do things for themselves it must however be more expansive the general strike is an action of sharp contrasts you either strike or you scab that sharp contrast is good and crucial but at the level that oakland is right now it is paramount that other venues open for people to participate we must broaden the base of people who participate in the occupy movement and use this event as a spark to generate even more organizing and agitation outside oscar grant frank ogawa plaza hearing from a comrade that she was one upped by a neighbor in door knocking in her street is one of those signs that the sentiment and energy is seeping through the cracks and building up this is what we need this is what we should be doing and what many are doing it is really not productive to get caught fantasizing about a anarcho syndicalist general strike and be tied to the exclusive project of stopping production it is a lot more relevant and revolutionary to try and break people from the patterns of alienation even if just a bit more and have them engage in mass action be strike mass action or not all that being said i can only ask one thing of my beloved adopted town prove me wrong and shut down the town revolutionaries in social movements speaking events 14 thursday oct 2010 posted by theleftwinger in anarchism audio leave a comment tags amanecer anarchist program capitalism class revolutionaries south america the state uruguay soon soon near you i have been working too much and flamengo has been playing like shit so i have not have time or inspiration to come back to this blog hopefully that will change soon however for now here is the audio of two events i spoke at in southern california one in san diego and the other one is riverside many thanks to socal workers solidarity alliance for helping put these events together and for the comradeship and company hope to see y all soon again click on the links san diego riverside we had another event in los angeles but the recording is trapped by my lack of computer skills before the spring must come winter 08 tuesday dec 2009 posted by theleftwinger in flamengo the politics of soccer 1 comment tags class flamengo in the news patricia soccer south america patricia amorim first female president of flamengo and of any major brazilian club and before celebrating we must talk of serious matters for some stupid reason flamengo s presidential election was held the monday after the last game of the season so instead of being here talking about the greatest of events i m here talking electoral politics like most major clubs in south america flamengo is a multi sport athletic association not privately owned but run by an elected official normally in three year terms patricia amorim a former swimmer for flamengo surprisingly dethroned the situation the day after a major victory for the football team patricia had already been part of flamengo s administration for over three years but she was forced to resign from her position as olympic sports vice president during a major financial crisis in the club earlier this that left the basketball team with over six months of overdue salaries not to say about other sports like swimming and gymnastics and the staff delair dumbrosk who was running for the situation was the executive vice president at the time and has been running the club for the great part of this year due to president s marcio braga chronic hard condition that had him in and out of surgery his victory was given as certain in case of a flamengo title he shunned the debates and other forums and run on a you don t wanna risk changing things now campaign it didn t work the problem is that patricia a member of rio de janeiro s city council ran a very political campaign full of nothing and some more nothing i listened to the debate for 2 hours and not once a heard a single concrete proposal coming out of her mouth there was a lot of buzzwords like professionalism and 21st century but nothing relevant not that the other candidates were much better pedro ferrer sulled clóvis sahione screamed like a madman about nothing important lysias itapicurú was as charismatic as john kerry and as relevant too plínio serpa pinto did present some ideas some good some bad but all very concrete if i could vote he would have been the one but patricia was the one with the most supporters i got to give it to her in the minefield that is flamengo politics she had always been able to aggregate instead of divide now the question is if that was because she wasn t in power there is a lot of fear that she will sink football because she is more worried about the olympic sports her home base or that she will bring us something akin to the terrible disorganization and corruption of the 90 s when from being a club with a budget that ran on a surplus we became a club with a debt of over 170 million dollars if any of that is substantiated i don t know i am surprisingly giving her the benefit of the doubt she has three years to prove herself godspeed madam president a nation is in your hands the practical considerations of building an effective anarchist program today part iii 13 friday nov 2009 posted by theleftwinger in analysis anarchism 4 comments tags anarchist program capitalism class revolutionaries the state trying to write this as a blog post was a bit reckless of me although these ideas have been distilling through my brain for a while now it is clear now that there is a lot of rewriting that needs to be done to this piece to make it readable and most importantly clear and understandable i will continue to post the rest of it and than rewrite it though there are two reasons for that one is simple continuity and secondly i hope to get criticism that can help me improve the final piece also there s gotta be a sexier name for this piece than the one i have huerta grande is nice and memorable this name would probably become some ugly acronym like pcbeapn ugh so here s to part 3 part i here part ii here tracing goals and methods of achieving goals the objective of a political program is not victory in a concrete specific struggle or even victory per se we must not believe that a good strategy assures victory a good strategy simply enhances our chances of victory but there is much in our work that is unpredictable and untangle and cannot be made work simply by our clever assumptions the work of the revolutionist is much like the work of the farmer before planting a seed a farmer will plow the land fertilize it and clear aggressive weeds that might kill the seed before it germinates when the seed does germinate the farmer must control temperature soil humidity pests and a number of different environmental and plant behavior yet through this whole process even if the farmer does everything right there s no guarantee that the plant will survive or bear fruit the farmer works to improve the plant s chances of survival and reproduction the farmer does not control the process but tries to influence it it is the same with the revolutionary leninist and guevarist mythologies notwithstanding revolutions are acts of collective will exacted at precise material and historic conditions as malatesta once put it we see anarchy as the ultimate end of history not because history will inevitably end in anarchy but because anarchy is the goal we think history ought to lead too all that being said we then see the goal of the program of the anarchist organization to help ferment the favorable conditions for the revolutionary seeds to germinate yet it is quite a grandiose goal and vague in other others useless beyond being a guiding principle the specific organization of anarchists need specific goals that it wants to accomplish goals of an anarchist organization are different of the goals for a larger movement organization because the function of the anarchist organization is different from the movement organization the goals of the specific anarchist organization should relate to winning as the members of the the dielo trouda group put it the leadership of ideas in the struggle in which they participate goals should be divided in short medium and long term short term goals refer to goals of a year or so or that refer to an specific short term campaign so short term goals can be about the specific strategy around supporting a strike or a campaign around a round of budget cuts to school or city services here the objectives for the revolutionary organization should be around proposing solutions to the problem faced by the movement that broaden the realm of the possible and move people towards the realization of their own power towards direct action medium term goals for the revolutionary organization involve the growth of the sphere of influence of the ideas of the organization that includes not only creation of a base with which the organization interacts and specific theaters of struggle in which the organization will act but also internal goals such as growth and recruitment strategies the kind and level of propaganda activities the organization wishes to engage in and methods of creating theory and empowering the members of the organization to be both organizers and theoreticians on their own right long term goals for the anarchist organization refer mainly i think about the creation of lasting effective alliances with social movements and with other anarchist organizations and the creation of continental or transcontinental federations and strategies two asides must be added to this first these goals reflect only the ideas around the practices of the organization regarding itself social movements as the engine and brain of the revolution subscribe to a different process second this refers to local or regional organizations continental and transcontinental organizations are a different kind of monster and i don t wish neither have the capacity to tackle it ok so i realized two things when i finished writing this first there is a lot i need to explain around clausewitz s theories on war and how they affect my look on strategy i think i need to write something that specifically deals with strategy maybe still as part of this maybe as a companion piece secondly i think i am done with this line of thought as a line this outline has been sucked dry and i cannot just pile more things on top of it in without first coming back and really reworking this thing as a whole so it makes sense yet there is still a lot i want to talk about on the subject or related to it so expect more post coming out on the question of anarchist strategy and 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