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t spontaneity to divert the working class movement from this spontaneous trade unionist striving to come under the wing of the bourgeoisie and to bring it under the wing of revolutionary social democracy the sentence employed by the authors of the economist letter published in iskra no 12 that the efforts of the most inspired ideologists fail to divert the working class movement from the path that is determined by the interaction of the material elements and the material environment is therefore tantamount to renouncing socialism v i lenin what is to be done the platform s concept of the leadership of ideas has been likened to a leninist vanguard but if not from malice the argument seems to come from a place of half knowledge any ideological group seeks a leadership of ideas in its field be they religious scientific or political those who are passionate about their ideas want to share them that anarchists should try to have a leadership of ideas make their ideas prominent even dominant inside movements it is however paramount that anarchists fight for the democratic process and spirit of movements at all times we who wish that the people liberate themselves must advocate for and defend the elements of social movements that foster the realization of people as full human beings critical thinkers anti authoritarian self confident human beings this cannot happen without real space for dissent and debate inside the movements for people to organize themselves in ways that may not be the desired ones by anarchist organizers one thing we must be aware is that challenging what people want is a fundamental part of organizing however the role of the anarchist organizer is to challenge the preconceptions of what is possible of the one single way of doing things and shatter the paradigms set on by capitalist society that is the line that needs to be wlked on all the time fostering critical thinking and respecting dissent in one hand and offering critique and challenging attitudes that come from the bourgeois ideology to expect that people already know everything is naive and self deceptive people can see only inside the paradigm that have been reared in but for that to become a excuse to destroy dissent will never bring the liberation of the working classes in that context we must understand leadership of idea as a struggle for hegemony between authoritarianism and self actualization between the values of obedience and critical thought the left tends to charge at people with what to think but it is often scared of thought the leadership of anarchist ideas is the leadership 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 ...