MLM (yes- read some Maoists. Understanding mass line organizing is maybe the most important thing in the US right now imo) theory gives you a very solid philosophical framework and an outline of how a revolution can be done. It also deeply analyzes class and imperialism in a way that anarchism doesn't.
My feeling is that in the US especially, the left needs way more discipline, way more strategic planning, an actual program that we can work towards and refine. I don't see anarchism doing any of this.
Is there a specific section where it discusses past successful anarchist revolutions? Or is it just sprinkled throughout the text? I don't see a relevant heading and it's quite a long document.
It's an overall overview of how movements/societies that are/were either explicitly anarchists or weren't anarchist but fit under it's definition worked/work. So it's a book that should be read as a whole.
Has there been a successful anarchist revolution?
MLM (yes- read some Maoists. Understanding mass line organizing is maybe the most important thing in the US right now imo) theory gives you a very solid philosophical framework and an outline of how a revolution can be done. It also deeply analyzes class and imperialism in a way that anarchism doesn't. My feeling is that in the US especially, the left needs way more discipline, way more strategic planning, an actual program that we can work towards and refine. I don't see anarchism doing any of this.
Yes. Multiple.
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I'll read thru this when I get a chance. Just asking for some examples of successful anarchist movements
Is there a specific section where it discusses past successful anarchist revolutions? Or is it just sprinkled throughout the text? I don't see a relevant heading and it's quite a long document.
It's an overall overview of how movements/societies that are/were either explicitly anarchists or weren't anarchist but fit under it's definition worked/work. So it's a book that should be read as a whole.
could you name some successful revolutions then and I'll read this later
I could, but the book does it way better and i'm not in the mood of being mobbed again by the hivemind.
I mean the book is great sure