ANARCHIST IDEOLOGY AND CUBAN CIGAR MAKERS IN HAVANA, SOUTH FLORIDA AND NEW YORK CITY

Fall Anarchist Classes
Thursday, November 03 2005 @ 09:05 PM PST
Contributed by: Sea FALL 2005' ANARCHIST CLASSES

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
taught by Tom Wetzel

ANARCHIST IDEOLOGY AND CUBAN CIGAR MAKERS IN HAVANA, SOUTH FLORIDA AND NEW
YORK CITY: 1850s - 1890s


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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Teacher: Tom Wetzel[image6_right]
Day: Wed
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Class Begins Nov. 2nd
next classes Nov. 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, Dec. 7th
Location: Downtown Campus- 88 4th St., San Francisco ( across from the
Metreon )
Room #: 725
Course Outline:
1. & 2. Background, the revolution of 1905, formation of big city soviets
of 1917, the "dual power" between soviets & provisional government,
emergence of the factory committee movement, the "division of labor" between
economy & polity in the minds of many workers, the Bolshevik taking of
power,
the new structure of Soviet government, Lenin's decree on "worker control",
Marxist argument for central planning, First Trade Union Congress of
January 1918

3. anarchist stance towards the soviets & "power" and governance,
anarcho-syndicalist response to Marxists on central planning,
differences between anarcho-communists & anarcho-syndicalists

4. War Communism & the consequences of the civil war, program
of the Workers Opposition in 1921, Kronstadt rebellion, "proletarianization"
of the managerial regime & forced collectivization under Stalin.

5. The Makhnovist movement in Ukraine, critique of [image7_right]anarchist
disorganization by Makhno &
Arshinov

6. What is the nature of the Soviet system?
State capitalist? Bureaucratic collectivist? Coordinatorist?


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ANARCHIST IDEOLOGY AND CUBAN CIGAR MAKERS IN HAVANA, SOUTH FLORIDA AND NEW
YORK CITY: 1850s - 1890s


Teacher: Evan M. Daniel
Day: Thu.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Date: Nov. 10th
Location: Downtown Campus- 88 4th St., San Francisco ( across from the Metreon )
Room #: 319
Presentation Description:
This presentation explores an often neglected dimension of Cuban history and labor history in general. The Cuban Revolution (1959) permanently associated Cuban radicalism with anti-imperialist nationalism and, eventually, Communism. However, during the mid-late
nineteenth century, a vibrant and diverse radical movement that embraced a variety of anarchist ideological orientations—mutualist, collectivist, communist—exerted a tremendous influence on the Island’s first labor organizations, particularly among cigar makers.
Furthermore, the anarchist ideology and work culture of Cuban cigar makers moved beyond the Island’s shore when the workers immigrated to Southern Florida and New York City both in search of employment and in flight from the devastation wrought by the Ten Years’ War

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