Analysis & Critiques

[AgitProp #22] Means and Ends: The Anarchist Critique of Seizing State Power

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Author: Zoe Baker

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The anarchist critique of seizing state power is often caricatured as being based on an abstract moral opposition to the state that ignores the harsh realities we are currently facing. Upon carefully reading historical anarchist authors, however, one discovers that the real reason why they argued that revolutionaries should not seize existing state power was because it was impractical for achieving their goals.

From the website of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra.

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The Deepening Capitalist Crisis: From Blood and Dirt to much worse

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The Deepening Capitalist Crisis - Shawn Hattingh [ZACF]

Author: Shawn Hattingh

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It was long ago stated that capitalism came into the world dripping in blood and dirt, from every pore, from head to toe. While it has demonstrated that it won’t simply collapse under its own weight, the recent goings-on around the current capitalist crisis have shown that with age it has become even more hideous. Capitalism is now rank with massive state intervention required to simply keep its rotting body moving: through states propping up the financial sector and deepening the colossal attack on the working class.

Shawn Hattingh is a member of South Africa’s
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
www.zabalaza.net
This text from the Anarkismo site.
www.anarkismo.net

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