Anarchists' anti- socialist hatred is souring movement
Revolutionary Socialists | 07.11.2000 17:09
Antagonistic attitude of anarchists towards socialists at Hackney demo and elsewhere (inc IMC) suggests they may be the new stalinists...
Hackney: A revolutionary socialist was treated in a most atrocious manner by an anarchist, who pushed some paraphernalia into his face for no reason. Hoping it was a misplaced joke the comrade responded "that was nice of you" whereupon the antagonist replied "No, I'm trained to attack Trotskyists".
What are the A bunch up to ? These kind of obsessive, axe- grinding tirades are now common place, there are reports of socialists being beaten up by them in Prague, the ANL or SWP place a demo notice and report on these pages only to be greeted with a rant about Marx, Lenin and (particularly) Trotsky. Add to this the IMC insistence that freedom of speech is a bourgeois left over, and well, it looks like they're looking to claim the stalinist inheritance p.d.q. We ask you, whose damn side are you on here ? This is no way for leftists to treat each other. As if the anarchists are so bloody innocent here: they deny the 'party', but their party is the tightest of the lot, they condemn the workers state, but their state will be euphemistically termed 'new age community' or somesuch.
The anarchists are in a pickle: they need mass support from the working class, but they cant stand them ! They are socially and politically bourgeois elitist throughout, even if of the left variety, and they learned their prep- and public- school courses too well to forget them completely. Of course they will be hostile to any group which is trying to organize the working class AS a class, instead of as an anti- hairstyle, anti- fashion parade.
What are the A bunch up to ? These kind of obsessive, axe- grinding tirades are now common place, there are reports of socialists being beaten up by them in Prague, the ANL or SWP place a demo notice and report on these pages only to be greeted with a rant about Marx, Lenin and (particularly) Trotsky. Add to this the IMC insistence that freedom of speech is a bourgeois left over, and well, it looks like they're looking to claim the stalinist inheritance p.d.q. We ask you, whose damn side are you on here ? This is no way for leftists to treat each other. As if the anarchists are so bloody innocent here: they deny the 'party', but their party is the tightest of the lot, they condemn the workers state, but their state will be euphemistically termed 'new age community' or somesuch.
The anarchists are in a pickle: they need mass support from the working class, but they cant stand them ! They are socially and politically bourgeois elitist throughout, even if of the left variety, and they learned their prep- and public- school courses too well to forget them completely. Of course they will be hostile to any group which is trying to organize the working class AS a class, instead of as an anti- hairstyle, anti- fashion parade.
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