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Appendix : Anarchism and Marxism
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This appendix exists to refute some of the many anti-anarchist
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diatribes produced by Marxists. While we have covered why anarchists
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oppose Marxism in [1]section H, we thought it would be useful to reply
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to Marxist webpages and books whose content is not explicitly covered
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in that section. In this way we hope to indicate that Marxism is a
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flawed theory, flawed even to the extent of not being able to present a
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honest critique of anarchism. This consistent attempt to smear
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anarchism and distort its history and ideas is no co-incidence --
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rather it is required in order to present Marxism as the only viable
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form of socialism and, more importantly, to hide the fact that much of
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the populist Marxist rhetoric was, in fact, said by anarchists first
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and latter stolen by Marxists to hide the authoritarian basis of their
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One last point. We are aware that we repeat many of our arguments in
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these appendices. That, unfortunately, is avoidable for two reasons.
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Firstly, Marxists usually repeat the same false assertions against
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anarchism and so we have to answer them each time they appear. Marxists
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seem to subscribe to the point of view that repeating an error often
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enough makes it true. Secondly, we have tried to make each appendix as
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self-contained as possible and that meant repeating certain material
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and arguments to achieve this. We hope the reader understands.
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[2]Reply to errors and distortions in David McNally's pamphlet
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"Socialism from Below"
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[3]Marxists and Spanish Anarchism
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[4]Reply to errors and distortions in Phil Mitchinson's "Marxism and
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[5]Reply to errors and distortions in the SWP's "Marxism and
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[6]Reply to errors and distortions in John Fisher's "Why we must
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further Marxism and not Anarchism"
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[7]Reply to errors and distortions in David McNally's pamphlet
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"Socialism from Below"
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[9]2. Is anarchism the politics of the "small property owner"?
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[10]3. Does anarchism "glorify values from the past"?
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[11]4. Why are McNally's comments on Proudhon a distortion of his
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[12]5. Why are McNally's comments on Bakunin a distortion of his
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[13]6. Are the "quirks of personality" of Proudhon and Bakunin
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listed by McNally actually rooted "in the very nature of anarchist
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[14]7. Are anarchists against democracy?
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[15]8. Are Leninists in favour of democracy?
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[16]9. Why is McNally wrong on the relation of syndicalism to
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[17]10. Do syndicalists reject working class political action?
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[18]11. Why is McNally's claim that Leninism supports working class
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self-emancipation wrong?
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[19]12. Why is Marxist "class analysis" of anarchism contradictory?
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[20]13. If Marxism is "socialism from below," why do anarchists
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[21]14. Why is McNally's use of the term "socialism from below"
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[22]15. Did Trotsky keep alive Leninism's "democratic essence"?
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[23]Marxists and Spanish Anarchism
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[24]1. Were the Spanish Anarchists "Primitive Rebels"?
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[25]2. How accurate is Felix Morrow's book on the Spanish
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[26]3. Did a "highly centralised" FAI control the CNT?
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[27]4. What is the history of the CNT and the Communist
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[28]5. Why did the CNT not join the Workers' Alliance?
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[29]6. Was the October 1934 revolt sabotaged by the CNT?
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[30]7. Were the Friends of Durruti Marxists?
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[31]8. Did the Friends of Durruti "break with" anarchism?
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[32]9. Were the Friends of Durruti influenced by Trotskyists?
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[33]10. What does the Friends of Durruti's programme tell us about
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[34]11. Why is Morrow's comments against the militarisation of the
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[35]12. What is ironic about Morrow's vision of revolution?
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[36]13. Why do anarchists reject the Marxist "workers' state"?
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[37]14. What is wrong with Morrow's "fundamental tenet" of
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[38]15. Did Spanish Anarchism aim for the creation of "collectives"
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before the revolution?
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[39]16. How does the development of the collectives indicate the
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differences between Bolshevism and anarchism?
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[40]17. Why is Morrow's support for "proletarian methods of
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[41]18. Were the federations of collectives an "abandonment" of
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[42]19. Did the experience of the rural collectives refute
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[43]20. Does the experience of the Spanish Revolution indicate the
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failure of anarchism or the failure of anarchists?
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[44]Reply to errors and distortions in Phil Mitchinson's "Marxism and
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[45]1. How does Mitchinson impoverish the politics of the direct action
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[46]2. Does anarchism "juxtapose" theory and action?
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[47]3. How does Mitchinson distort the London May Day demo?
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[48]4. Do anarchists really think "the bosses will do nothing to
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defend their system"?
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[49]5. How does Mitchinson misrepresent anarchist organisation?
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[50]6. How does Mitchinson define anarchism wrongly?
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[51]7. Does anarchism reject fighting for reforms?
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[52]8. Does anarchism see the state as the root of all problems?
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[53]9. Why is Mitchinson wrong about the "Abolishion [i.e.
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Abolition] of the state"?
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[54]10. Why is Mitchinson's comment that we face either "socialism
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or barbarism" actually undermine his case?
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[55]11. Why is Mitchinson wrong to assert anarchists do not believe
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in defending a revolution?
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[56]12. Would the "workers' state" really be different, as
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[57]13. Is the Marxist "worker's state" really the rule of one
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[58]14. Why do anarchists reject the Marxist notion of "conquest of
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[59]15. What caused the degeneration of the Russian Revolution?
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[60]16. Did anarchists reject "the need for organisation in the
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shape of trade unions"?
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[61]17. Why do anarchists reject political activity?
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[62]18. How do anarchists struggle for reforms under capitalism?
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[63]19. How does Mitchinson distorts the use of the term
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[64]20. Is anarchism an example of "Philosophical idealism"?
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[65]21. How is Mitchinson's critique self-contradictory?
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[66]22. How did Trotsky make the trains run on time?
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[67]23. Can centralised planning meet the needs of the whole of
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[68]24. Is technology neutral?
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[69]25. Do anarchists ignore the "strength of the working class"?
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[70]26. What does Mitchinson's article tell about the nature of
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[71]Reply to errors and distortions in the SWP's "Marxism and
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[72]1. What does the anti-globalisation movement tell us about the
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effectiveness of the "vanguard" parties like the SWP?
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[73]2. What does the SWP miss out in its definition of anarchism?
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[74]3. Why does mentioning the history of anarchism weaken the
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[75]4. How is the SWP wrong about centralisation?
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[76]5. Why does the SWP's "picket line is 'authoritarian'" argument
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totally miss the point?
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[77]6. Why are the SWP's examples of "state functions" wrong?
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[78]7. What is ironic about the SWP's comment that workers'
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councils must "break up" the capitalist state?
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[79]8. How do the SWP re-write the history of the Russian
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[80]9. How do the SWP re-write the history of the Spanish
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[81]10. Do anarchists ignore the fact that ideas change through
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[82]11. Why do anarchists oppose the Leninist "revolutionary
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[83]12. Why do the SWP make a polemical fetish of "unity" and
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"democracy" to the expense of common sense and freedom?
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[84]13. How does the Battle of Prague expose the SWP as hypocrites?
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[85]14. Is the Leninist tradition actually as democratic as the SWP
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[86]15. Why is the SWP's support for centralisation anti-socialist?
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[87]16. Why is the SWP wrong about the A16 Washington D.C. demo?
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[88]17. Why does the SWP's Washington example refute the SWP's own
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argument and not anarchism?
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[89]18. Why is a "revolutionary party" a contradiction in terms?
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[90]19. Do anarchists operate "in secret"?
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[91]20. Why is the SWP wrong about Bakunin's organisation?
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[92]21. Why is the SWP's attack on Bakunin's organisation ironic?
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[93]22. Was the F.A.I. a "centralised and secret" organisation that
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shunned "open debate and common struggle"?
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[94]23. Do anarchists wait for "spontaneous upsurges by workers"?
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[95]24. Do anarchists blame workers "for being insufficiently
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[96]25. Why does the history of centralised parties refute the
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[97]Reply to errors and distortions in John Fisher's "Why we must
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further Marxism and not Anarchism"
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[98]1. Why should "the so-called Anarchistic youth of today" be
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concerned that Trotskyists consider them allies?
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[99]2. What else do people learn about when they discover anarchism
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is more than "utter rebellion"?
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[100]3. What do anarchists think will "replace the smashed state
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[101]4. What did Trotsky and Lenin think must replace the bourgeois
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[102]5. Is the "proletarian 'state'" really a new kind of state?
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[103]6. Do anarchists "hope the capitalists do not make any
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attempts of counterrevolution"?
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[104]7. Are Anarchists simply "potential Marxists"?
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[105]8. Is Marxism a scientific?
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[106]9. What does the Russian Revolution tell us about Trotskyism?
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[107]10. Do anarchists reject "leadership"?
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[108]11. Does the Spanish Revolution show anarchism is flawed?
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[109]12. Does anarchism believe in spontaneous revolution?
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