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Oct 3, 2015 · In the hundred years since Marx's death, the debate between those who accept the ideas of Marx and those who accept the ideas of the anarchist founders has been fierce; at times it has been quite vicious and thoughtless.
Marx was already at odds with Mikhail Bakunin, one of the most important exponents of revolutionary anarchism at the time. To this day, it has proven impossible to move beyond a debate that has often been fruitful, but also often unrewarding – a fact that is ultimately indicative of open questions associated with "the matter at issue".
- Direct Action and The State
- Human Nature and Socialism
- Towards Paris
- Jacobinism, Blanquism and Marxism
- Conclusion
In an “open Marxist” critique of Lenin’s politics that shares common ground with anarchist and autonomist arguments, John Holloway suggests a link between Leninist, democratic centralist, forms of organisation and the claim that classical Marxists are state socialists. He argues that the problem with the “form of the party” is that it “presupposes ...
The issue of democracy points to a deeper fundamental problem with anarchism: anarchist conceptions of human nature. On democracy itself, the 19th century French anarchist Proudhon complained that “universal suffrage is the counter-revolution”, while his Russian counterpart, Bakunin, pointed to a rejection of democracy when he argued that “all poli...
The rational core of the myth that Marx thought that a change in government would suffice to bring about socialism can be traced to his debate with the anarchists in the First International over the issue of raising political demands, i.e. of demanding reforms from government. Extrapolating from their views of human nature both Proudhon and Bakunin...
The claim that Marx was a statist who believed a simple change in government would suffice to bring about socialism is related to the charge that he failed to escape the limits of the Jacobinism of the revolutionaries of the most extreme phase of the French Revolution. For instance, in his Statism and Anarchy, Bakunin argued that “by education and ...
It is because Marxists and anarchists have different goals that they fight for these goals by different means. As we have seen, whereas anarchists tend to envision a natural (ahistorical) social harmony beyond the state, for Marxists socialism is conceived as the complete democratisation of society based upon the emergence of historically novel soc...
Apr 20, 2020 · At the same time, Marx and Engels suggest that the anarchist’s ‘statism’ was evident in the fact that any proposed federation of free associations would require force to achieve its ends and that their combination would inevitably lead to the exercise of power by a central ‘authority.’
Jan 14, 2011 · It is not possible to cover the whole anarchist/marxist debate adequately in one or two articles. What I propose to do here, and in the accompanying notes on Marx and Bakunin, is to concentrate on the most common and basic anarchist objections to Marxism, and to examine them briefly.
Abstract. Marx's first meeting with Mikhail Bakunin in 1847 was amicable. Sixteen years later, however, he crossed swords with Bakunin, who had by then formed his own anarchist current. The setting was the just-founded International Workingmen's Association (IWA) or First International.
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May 28, 2012 · Using the alternative conceptual approach, this paper argues that the schism that marked the relationship between anarchism and Marxism during the ‘short twentieth century’ was primarily the result of the primacy Marxism gave to the Leninist centralized structure following the Bolshevik revolution. The revolutionary party was able to impose ...
