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Questions for the Anarchist Movement

by anokky
These questions are taken from a 1928 letter from Nestor Makhno to Errico Malatesta. I think these questions are still relevant for today, and I'd be interested in a discussion amongst local anarchists about these questions.

<ol>
<li>Should anarchism take some responsibility in the struggle of the workers against their oppressors, capitalism, and its servant the State? If not, can you say why? If yes, must the anarchists work towards allowing their movement to exert influence on the same basis as the existing social order?<br><br></li>
<li>Can anarchism, in the state of disorganisation in which it finds itself at the moment, exert any influence, ideological and practical, on social affairs and the struggle of the working class?<br><br></li>
<li>What are the means that anarchism should adopt outside the revolution and what are the means of which it can dispose to prove and affirm its constructive concepts?<br><br></li>
<li>Does anarchism need its own permanent organisations, closely tied among themselves by unity of goal and action to attain its ends?<br><br></li>
<li>What do the anarchists mean by *institutions to be established* with a view to guaranteeing the free development of society?<br><br></li>
<li>Can anarchism, in the communist society it conceives, do without social institutions? If yes, by what means? If no, which should it recognise and use and with what names bring them into being? Should the anarchists take on a leading function, therefore one of responsibility, or should they limit themselves to being irresponsible auxiliaries?<br><br></li>
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by sw
Can anarchism, in the communist society it conceives, do without social institutions?

What the question should instead have stated was:
"Can anarchism, in the anarchist society it conceives, do without social institutions?"

anarchism is not identitical to communism, because just like capitalism, communism is based around an at least semi-authoritative, if not totalitarian regime.

Anarchy is not.
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