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Insurrection & Organisation
Blythe, Karl
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/8947Date Written: 2008-05-20 Publisher: Black Cat Press, Edmonton, Canada Year Published: 2008 Pages: 12pp Resource Type: Pamphlet Cx Number: CX14239 An attempt to analyze the role of insurrection in the class struggle, in relation to the problem of revolutionary organization. Abstract: - Excerpt: Our program, like our ideology, is two-fold. The social ideals that guide us are in and of themselves creative. Our program therefore naturally involves a constructive aspect that is summed up by the notion of libertarian communism. As an immediate reflection of that we must set about a constructive project to lay the social basis today for the free society. On the other hand, our ideals are but an expression of the historic struggle by the popular masses (the proletariat, in particular) against the ruling classes (the capitalists) and their instruments of power (the state). That is why our ideology is, and has always been, revolutionary in the most complete sense. Therefore, our organizational program must be a program of struggle against the state and ruling classes. In short our fundamental purpose is the complete overthrow of the ruling classes and the state, and the expropriation of social wealth by the working classes (i.e. the proletariat). Put another way (perhaps slightly complete), we aim to subjugate authority to popular power by means of insurrection. Now, that will not all occur on some climactic “great day.../../” Rather, it entails a long process of organizing and constructing a concrete basis of popular power, together with an intensifying struggle originating in the immediate demands of the popular masses and growing to the point of a revolutionary social upheaval. To fulfill that task, we must devise and stick to a revolutionary program entailing both our higher objectives and our “medium-term../../” strategy, to be adapted as necessary but always consistent in its fundamental principles. That means we cannot minimize or reduce our program to a mere list of immediate demands. At the same time, it cannot mean unduly separating ourselves from the masses (the basic error of insurrectionism). In that sense, José Gutiérrez is correct in criticizing the common anarchist trend of “making general rules out of exceptional circumstances../../” (see note 3). It is crucial at this moment when the class struggle is barely picking up again in much of the world, that we adopt an organized practice that is consistent with our revolutionary principles but is also capable of winning over the masses. Subject Headings |