Bedtime Theory

I’m collecting here how marxists in their own words define centralization, democratic centralism, and decentralization as part of an ongoing debate I’m having with friends over revolution, organization, and the economy. Also see sections H 5.5, 5.6, and 5.10 of the anarchist FAQ for definitions of democratic centralism, why anarchists oppose it, and why it produces so-called bureaucratic centralism, an alleged wrong turn of democratic centralism. http://infoshop.org/faq/secH5.html#sech55. Seeing even just this narrow of a selection of marxists (it leaves out all the social democrats, and left communists) demonstrates in my opinion that lack of any semblence of a coherent notion of centralization. Centralization is more of a buzz word for being effective than a rigorous material concept used in building revolutionary praxis. (more…)

I want to use this space to collect anarchist feminist writings that are useful in aiding in the development of an anti-sexist politic engaged in movements for collective liberation. These writings have been somewhat obscure or at least hard to find for me, and I’d like to put together a reader eventually. (more…)

A comrade wrote a reply to my notes I wrote for a reading group discussion. Here is my long delayed response. (more…)

A comrade wrote a reply to my notes I wrote for a reading group discussion. Here is my long delayed response. (more…)

There is an old argument amongst anarchists. The argument starts with the nature of unions, and ends with the conclusion that revolutionaries shouldn’t attempt to build libertarian alternatives outside the unions, and instead should enter into the established unions and agitate for anarchism there. Though the argument doesn’t derive from Malatesta, he wrote it most succintly and is an inspiration for many. Looking at the argument we can see the missing pieces, and why this orientation towards unions is mistaken. (more…)

This is my comments on an STO paper, towards the revolutionary party (more…)

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This is my article which tries to reply to councilists, syndicalists, and boring-from-within anarchists. I wrote this about a year ago. It is written wrong, but i’m going to work on it here. 

i’ve been working on this article for a while, but am not satisfied with it. I think i’m trying to incorporate too much, and am making it muddled. any thoughts on how to improve it?

I’m going to start using this again since I’m reading and writing a lot. This is all schematic since it’s all over the place, but if anyone is down to discuss it, bust out. Here’s an overview of that business
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