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<title>Section H - Why do anarchists oppose state socialism?
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<H1><center>Section H - Why do anarchists oppose state socialism?
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<H2><a href="secHint.html">Introduction</a></H2>
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<h2><a href="secH1.html">H.1 Have anarchists always opposed state socialism?</a></h2>
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<A HREF="secH1.html#sech11">H.1.1 What was Bakunin's critique of Marxism?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH1.html#sech12">H.1.2 What are the key differences between Anarchists and Marxists? </A><br>
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<A HREF="secH1.html#sech13">H.1.3 Why do anarchists wish to abolish the state <i>"overnight"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH1.html#sech14">H.1.4 Do anarchists have <i>"absolutely no idea"</i> of what the proletariat will put in place of the state?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH1.html#sech15">H.1.5 Why do anarchists reject <i>"utilising the present state"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH1.html#sech16">H.1.6 Why do anarchists try to <i>"build the new world in the shell of the old"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH1.html#sech17">H.1.7 Haven't you read Lenin's "State and Revolution"?</A><br>
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<h2><a href="secH2.html">H.2 What parts of anarchism do Marxists particularly misrepresent?</a></h2>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech21">H.2.1 Do anarchists reject defending a
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech22">H.2.2 Do anarchists reject the need for collective working class struggle?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech23">H.2.3 Does anarchism <i>"yearn for what has gone before"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech24">H.2.4 Do anarchists think <i>"the state is the
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main enemy"</i> rather than just <i>"one aspect"</i> of class society?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech25">H.2.5 Do anarchists think <i>"full blown"</i> socialism will be created overnight?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech26">H.2.6 How do Marxists misrepresent Anarchist ideas on mutual aid?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech27">H.2.7 Who do anarchists see as their <i>"agents of social change"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech28">H.2.8 What is the relationship of anarchism to syndicalism?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech29">H.2.9 Do anarchists have <i>"liberal"</i>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech210">H.2.10 Are anarchists against leadership?
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech211">H.2.11 Are anarchists <i>"anti-democratic"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech212">H.2.12 Does anarchism survive only in the absence of a strong workers' movement?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech213">H.2.13 Do anarchists reject "political" struggles and action?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech214">H.2.14 Are anarchist organisations either <i>"ineffective," "elitist"</i> or <i>"downright bizarre"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech215">H.2.15 Do anarchists reject discipline?
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<A HREF="secH2.html#sech216">H.2.16 Does the Spanish Revolution show the failure of anarchism?</a>
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<H2><a href="secH3.html">H.3 What are the myths of state
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socialism?</a></H2><p><ol>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech31">H.3.1 Do Anarchists and Marxists want the same thing?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech32">H.3.2 Is Marxism <i>"socialism from below"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech33">H.3.3 Is Leninism <i>"socialism from below"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech34">H.3.4 Don't anarchists just quote Marxists selectively?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech35">H.3.5 Has Marxist appropriation of anarchist ideas changed it?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech36">H.3.6 Is Marxism the only revolutionary politics which have worked?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech37">H.3.7 What is wrong with the Marxist theory of the state?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech38">H.3.8 What is wrong with the Leninist theory of the state?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech39">H.3.9 Is the state simply an agent of economic power?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech310">H.3.10 Has Marxism always supported the idea of workers' councils?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech311">H.3.11 Does Marxism aim to place power into the hands of workers organisations?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech312">H.3.12 Is big business the precondition for socialism?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech313">H.3.13 Why is state socialism just state capitalism?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech314">H.3.14 Don't Marxists believe in workers' control?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech315">H.3.15 Can objective factors explain the failure of the Russian Revolution?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH3.html#sech316">H.3.16 Did Bolshevik ideology influence the outcome of the Russian Revolution?</A><br>
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<H2><a href="secH4.html">H.4 Didn't Engels refute anarchism in his essay "On Authority"?</a></H2><p><ol>
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<A HREF="secH4.html#sech41">H.4.1 Does organisation imply the end of liberty? </A><br>
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<A HREF="secH4.html#sech42">H.4.2 How does free love versus marriage indicate the weakness of Engels' argument?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH4.html#sech43">H.4.3 How do anarchists propose to run a factory? </A><br>
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<A HREF="secH4.html#sech44">H.4.4 How does the class struggle refute Engels' arguments that industry required leaving <i>"all autonomy behind"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH4.html#sech45">H.4.5 Is the way industry operates
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<i>"independent of all social organisation"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH4.html#sech46">H.4.6 Why does Engels' "On Authority" harm Marxism?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH4.html#sech47">H.4.7 Why does Engels' argument that revolution is <i>"the most authoritarian thing there is"</i> totally miss the point?
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<A HREF="secH5.html">H.5 What is vanguardism and why do anarchists reject it?</A>
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<H3><A HREF="secH5.html#sech51">H.5.1 Why are vanguard parties anti-socialist?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech52">H.5.2 Have vanguardist assumptions been validated?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech53">H.5.3 Why does vanguardism imply party power?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech54">H.5.4 Did Lenin abandon vanguardism?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech55">H.5.5 What is <i>"democratic centralism"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech56">H.5.6 Why do anarchists oppose <i>"democratic centralism"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech57">H.5.7 Is the way revolutionaries organise important?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech58">H.5.8 Are vanguard parties effective?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech59">H.5.9 What are vanguard parties effective at?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech510">H.5.10 Why does <i>"democratic centralism"</i> produce <i>"bureaucratic centralism"</i>?</A><br>
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<A HREF="secH5.html#sech511">H.5.11 Can you provide an example of the negative nature of vanguard parties?</A><br>