Anarchism

The distinction between socialist, anarchist, and syndicalist turns largely upon the kind of democracy which they desire.

Orthodox socialists are content with the parliamentary democracy in the sphere of government, holding that the evils apparent in this form of constitution at present would disappear with the disappearance of capitalism.

Anarchist and syndicalist, on the other hand, object to the whole parliamentary machinery and aim at a different method of regulating the political affairs of the community.

But all alike are democratic in the sense that they aim at abolishing every kind of privilege and every kind of artificial inequality.

All alike are champions of the wage earner in existing society.

For example, the men who threw the bomb at Sarajevo, which started the present war, were not anarchists, but nationalists.

And those anarchists who are in favor of bomb throwing do not in this respect differ on any vital principle from the rest of the community, with the exception of that infinitesimal portion who adopt the Tolstoyan attitude of non-resistance.

Anarchists, like socialists, usually believe in the doctrine of the class war, and if they use bombs, it is as governments use bombs for purposes of war.

That's the word now.

Anarchist.

Yeah.

Trouble.

You're kidding.

Which papers are you seeing that in? Oh, two or three.

Anarchist.

Today, yeah.

Lenin scoffs at the anti-authoritarianism of Marxists and their lack of clarity in regards to a post-capitalist world.

Anarchists never offered an idea of what would actually come after the dissolution of the state, he says.

That's all I got on it, because I'll tell you why.

Uh, where as much as Lenin spars, Lenin is nowhere near as definitive as Stalin on anarchism.

There were groups like anarcho-punks and eco-punk who pushed the animal rights agenda harder than mainstream scenes.

Anarchists in the early '80s were already writing manifestos against animal exploitation, so when bands like Crass released War on the World, they were addressing both human oppression and animal suffering.

Crack that leather jacket story again.

The iconic Schott Perfecto style used by punk was originally a 1928 motorcycle jacket.

I just grabbed the Spanish, uh, version, uh, Spanish edition title for, for the second book.

Um, "The Spanish Anarchists" by M-Murray Bookchin has the bulk of, of what you need here.

There's other material that I sourced for this, especially some of the, the more niche elements of the conversation that we'll get into.

Um, but-

And that's why I wanted to walk through this.

It's, it, it's a little, it's-- there's a lot of stuff, and there's a lot of details, but this stuff really has to be understood.

And like I said, the, the, the two books that I recommended at the beginning, "The Spanish Anarchists," uh, "The Heroic Years" by Bookchin, a great book, and he's a really good writer too.

Uh, he makes, he makes a really sympathetic case, and he's really sympathetic with the Spanish, even framing his, uh, presentation on the Carlists in a really sympathetic way.