            Section H - Why do anarchists oppose state socialism?



[1]Introduction



[2]H.1 Have anarchists always opposed state socialism?

     [3]H.1.1 What was Bakunin's critique of Marxism?
     [4]H.1.2 What are the key differences between Anarchists and
     Marxists?
     [5]H.1.3 Why do anarchists wish to abolish the state "overnight"?
     [6]H.1.4 Do anarchists have "absolutely no idea" of what to put in
     place of the state?
     [7]H.1.5 Why do anarchists reject "utilising the present state"?
     [8]H.1.6 Why do anarchists try to "build the new world in the shell
     of the old"?
     [9]H.1.7 Haven't you read Lenin's "State and Revolution"?

[10]H.2 What parts of anarchism do Marxists particularly misrepresent?

[11]H.2.1 Do anarchists reject defending a revolution?
[12]H.2.2 Do anarchists reject "class conflict" and "collective struggle"?
[13]H.2.3 Does anarchism yearn "for what has gone before"?
[14]H.2.4 Do anarchists think "the state is the main enemy"?
[15]H.2.5 Do anarchists think "full blown" socialism will be created
overnight?
[16]H.2.6 How do Marxists misrepresent Anarchist ideas on mutual aid?
[17]H.2.7 Who do anarchists see as their "agents of social change"?
[18]H.2.8 What is the relationship of anarchism to syndicalism?
[19]H.2.9 Do anarchists have "liberal" politics?
[20]H.2.10 Are anarchists against leadership?
[21]H.2.11 Are anarchists "anti-democratic"?
[22]H.2.12 Does anarchism survive only in the absence of a strong workers'
movement?
[23]H.2.13 Do anarchists reject "political" struggles and action?
[24]H.2.14 Are anarchist organisations "ineffective," "elitist" or "downright
bizarre"?

[25]H.3 What are the myths of state socialism?

[26]H.3.1 Do Anarchists and Marxists want the same thing?
[27]H.3.2 Is Marxism "socialism from below"?
[28]H.3.3 Is Leninism "socialism from below"?
[29]H.3.4 Don't anarchists just quote Marxists selectively?
[30]H.3.5 Has Marxist appropriation of anarchist ideas changed it?
[31]H.3.6 Is Marxism the only revolutionary politics which have worked?
[32]H.3.7 What is wrong with the Marxist theory of the state?
[33]H.3.8 What is wrong with the Leninist theory of the state?
[34]H.3.9 Is the state simply an agent of economic power?
[35]H.3.10 Has Marxism always supported the idea of workers' councils?
[36]H.3.11 Does Marxism aim to give power to workers organisations?
[37]H.3.12 Is big business the precondition for socialism?
[38]H.3.13 Why is state socialism just state capitalism?
[39]H.3.14 Don't Marxists believe in workers' control?

[40]H.4 Didn't Engels refute anarchism in "On Authority"?

[41]H.4.1 Does organisation imply the end of liberty?
[42]H.4.2 Does free love show the weakness of Engels' argument?
[43]H.4.3 How do anarchists propose to run a factory?
[44]H.4.4 How does the class struggle refute Engels' arguments?
[45]H.4.5 Is the way industry operates "independent of all social
organisation"?
[46]H.4.6 Why does Engels' "On Authority" harm Marxism?
[47]H.4.7 Is revolution "the most authoritarian thing there is"?

[48]H.5 What is vanguardism and why do anarchists reject it?

[49]H.5.1 Why are vanguard parties anti-socialist?
[50]H.5.2 Have vanguardist assumptions been validated?
[51]H.5.3 Why does vanguardism imply party power?
[52]H.5.4 Did Lenin abandon vanguardism?
[53]H.5.5 What is "democratic centralism"?
[54]H.5.6 Why do anarchists oppose "democratic centralism"?
[55]H.5.7 Is the way revolutionaries organise important?
[56]H.5.8 Are vanguard parties effective?
[57]H.5.9 What are vanguard parties effective at?
[58]H.5.10 Why does "democratic centralism" produce "bureaucratic
centralism"?
[59]H.5.11 Can you provide an example of the negative nature of vanguard
parties?
[60]H.5.12 Surely the Russian Revolution proves that vanguard parties work?

[61]H.6 Why did the Russian Revolution fail?

[62]H.6.1 Can objective factors explain the failure of the Russian
Revolution?
[63]H.6.2 Did Bolshevik ideology influence the outcome of the Russian
Revolution?
[64]H.6.3 Were the Russian workers "declassed" and "atomised"?

     * [65]H.0 Section H Introduction
     * [66]H.1 Have anarchists always opposed state socialism?
     * [67]H.2 What parts of anarchism do Marxists particularly
       misrepresent?
     * [68]H.3 What are the myths of state socialism?
     * [69]H.4 Didn't Engels refute anarchism in "On Authority"?
     * [70]H.5 What is vanguardism and why do anarchists reject it?
     * [71]H.6 Why did the Russian Revolution fail?

   [72] G.7 Lysander Spooner: right-"libertarian" or libertarian
   socialist? [73]up [74]H.0 Section H Introduction 

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