http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com yes, this is what I do for fun Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:35:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2008/08/03/anarchists-and-the-unions/ This is my comments on an STO paper, towards the revolutionary party http://www.sojournertruth.net/tarp.html Comments on the STO’s Towards a Revolutionary Party Consciousness and revolutionaries “The daily struggles of the workers against the capitalists do not develop to the point where the class is sufficiently organized ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2008/07/27/mass-organization-and-political-organization/ We are trying to build a workers organization that can do away with the exploitation we live everyday. This exploitation runs deep, not just at our jobs, but in our homes, within us all. To take on this task, we’ve decided that we need to organize and both solve our ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2008/04/05/draft-dont-think-organize/ 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.    Why Organize: The nature of unions, and the goals of revolutionaries There is an old argument that unions are ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2008/01/10/why-organize/ 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? Socialism and the Recuperated Factory Movement: capitalist development and delusions Todd ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2008/01/10/socialist-governments-and-cooptation/ 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 Right now I’m working on an analysis of the failures ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2007/09/22/updates/ here is my reply to nate’s post on his blog ‘The FdCA specify that the class struggle is not “a collection of organizations for struggle produced by the situation of the class which work towards a common goal by reason of need” and they warn again “confusing the proletariat’s immediate ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2007/07/17/reply-to-nate-on-mass-and-political-organization/ So my thinking has changed on the issue since I first sketched it. In studying the modern day organizational dualists I realized there’s more than one way to cash this distinction. ooooh magic: in reality there’s two things floating around here, and two things I was not pulling ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2007/03/08/mass-vs-political-distinction/ I wrote this in reply to an analysis by a radical. Edits appreciated.   “[University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Presbyterian Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Loren H.] Roth says that improving the quality of care may also mean challenging a bedrock belief: that each patient is unique and that doctors must bring ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2007/02/09/nursing-shortage/ Couldn’t sleep last night. These are rough and need serious editing. I don’t like the ‘it isn’t/won’t work’ aspect of the one below. I need to edit that out, because that’s not what its about, but wanted to put something up anyway lest I let it sit on my desktop ... http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2007/02/09/anticontractualism/