Insurrectionary
anarchism is a
revolutionary theory and tendency within the anarchist movement that emphasizes insurrection as a
revolutionary practice. It is critical of formal organizations such as labor unions and federations that are based on a political program and periodic congresses. Instead, insurrectionary anarchists advocate informal organizations and small affinity group-based organizations. Insurrectionary anarchists put value in attack, permanent class
conflict, and a refusal to negotiate or compromise with class enemies. An influential individualist concept of insurrection appears in the book of
Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own from 1844.
The
Revolutionary… Read more Insurrectionary Army of
Ukraine, also known as the Black Army or
Makhnovtchina was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian peasants and commanded by
Nestor Makhno. They protected the operation of "free soviets" and libertarian communes in the Free Territory, an attempt to form a stateless libertarian
communist society from 1918 to 1921 during the Ukrainian
War of Independence. They were founded and inspired based on the Black Guards.
The Informal Anarchist Federation (not to be confused with the synthesist Italian Anarchist Federation also FAI ) is an Italian insurrectionary anarchist
organization. It has been described by Italian intelligence sources as a "horizontal" structure of various anarchist terrorist groups, united in their beliefs in
revolutionary armed action.
Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic
ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a
communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of
social classes,
money, and, in some cases, the state. As such,
communism is a specific form of
socialism.
Communism includes a variety of schools of thought which broadly include Marxism and
anarcho-communism as well as the political ideologies grouped around both, all of which share the analysis that the current order of
society stems from capitalism, its economic system, and mode of production, namely that in this system
… Read more there are two major
social classes, the relationship between these two classes is exploitative, and that this situation can only ultimately be resolved through a social
revolution. The two classes are the
proletariat (the
working class), who make up the majority of the population within
society and must work to survive; and the
bourgeoisie (the capitalist class), a small minority who derives profit from employing the
working class through private ownership of the means of production. According to this analysis,
revolution would put the
working class in power and in turn establish social ownership of the means of production which is the primary element in the transformation of
society towards
communism.
After 1917, a number of states were identified as
communist: these states espoused Marxism?Leninism or a variation of it. Along with social
democracy,
communism became the dominant political tendency within the international socialist movement by the 1920s. In practice, the model under which these nominally
communist states operated was, in fact, a form of state capitalism or a non-planned administrative-command system and not an actual
communist economic model in accordance with most accepted definitions of ?
communism? as an economic theory.
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