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civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Anarchist support for the Bolsheviks defnitively ended with crushing of the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921. Emma Goldman didn't write My Disillusionment in Russia until 1923. Plenty of anarchists here in New York, like Dolgoff and Sidney and Clara Solomon, organized support for the Spanish anarchists in the '30s. And apart from muddle-headed quasi-anarchists like the Yippies (much as I love 'em), who are these supposed anarchists who uncritically embraced Fidel?
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I smell revisionism
I know you weren't intending to be ironic. That's the sad part.
Speaking of which: how interesting that you will cite the work of anarchists like Dolgoff in order to discredit the left, but dismiss what they have to say about anarchism. Maybe I will check out the works you mention, but nothing I've read on the matter indicates that the anarchists in Spain engaged in forced collectivizations—principally, Dolgoff's The Anarchist Collectives, Murray Bookchin's The Spanish Anarchists, and José Peirats' Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution. All these (anarchist) scholars explicitly say the collectivizations were not forced, and that those who chose to work a small parcel as "individualists" were permitted to do so. Unless you are playing word games, and by "forced collectivizations" you mean forced expropriations. Of course the farms and factories were forcibly expropriated from the capitalists, and I wholeheartedly support this.
Anarchist support for the Bolsheviks defnitively ended with crushing of the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921. Emma Goldman didn't write My Disillusionment in Russia until 1923. Plenty of anarchists here in New York, like Dolgoff and Sidney and Clara Solomon, organized support for the Spanish anarchists in the '30s. And apart from muddle-headed quasi-anarchists like the Yippies (much as I love 'em), who are these supposed anarchists who uncritically embraced Fidel?
I am nobody's useful idiot. But a lot of post-lefty types have become useful idiots for a certain George W. Bush...