#platformism — Public Fediverse posts

https://libcom.org/article/breaking-out-subcultures-need-organisation-and-strategy

Excellent read on problems currently being faced in the anarchist movement
#especifismo #platformism #anarchism #anarchist #anarchocommunism #socialism

🏴 Check out Felipe Corrêa's (ITHA-IATH, OSL) presentation about organized #anarchism, #especifismo, #platformism, and the tradition of organizational dualism within the anarchist movement: https://blackrosefed.org/organized-anarchism-event-correa 🌎 The "Organized Anarchism: A Global Perspective" discussion series is organized by @blackrose_rosanegra #AnarchistCommunism #Revolution #SocialMovements

Our Friendly Critique of Bookchin's Politics has now been posted to our substack!!! Check it out if you want to see where we agree and disagree with Bookchin and more importantly how to potentially upgrade overall social ecological, communalist, and libertarian socialist praxis!!!

"Even though this essay has been rooted in a critical appraisal of Bookchin’s politics, this essay has also been aiming to do something more: that is to sketch out how to potentially upgrade social ecological praxis through a critical appraisal of Bookchin’s politics. Social ecology and communalism should be retained because their most essential and salient features hold true. And yet, social ecology and communalism can be made more coherent. Bookchin’s written and spoken philosophy is a closed book of sorts, but social ecology and communalism are living praxes that are internally differentiated and incomplete. First and foremost, the primary way that both social ecology and communalism can be made more coherent is through retaining their most essential features as part of praxis as they develop (including horizontality, direct democracy, mutual aid, direct action, communal self-governance, confederalism, oppositional politics, reconstructive politics, and an understanding of ecological problems as having their roots in social problems of hierarchy, etc.). Such a politics would keep a communalist core through the development of communal assemblies and confederations thereof as mass organizations for functions of mutual aid and direct action towards dual power and revolution. Such communal assemblies and federations thereof would be both counterpowers to capitalism and the state and help meet needs of people in self-managed ways– while prefiguring the new world based on self-management on every scale in the shell of the old. Aside from retaining their most essential features, social ecology and communalism can be made more coherent by subtracting Bookchin’s electoral approach to politics. Additionally, social ecology and communalism can use a reintegration of syndicalism as part of a revolutionary social movement ecosystem in such a way where syndicalism is viewed as a means (not as an end or as THE means)– and one of multiple means to be strategically emphasized more or less depending on conditions. Such a reintegration of syndicalism into overall social ecological praxis does not and should not overly reduce modes of oppositional politics to syndicalism (or otherwise underemphasize communalist means and ends). A fleshed out strategy involving relations of ideologically specific groups to social movements and popular organizations can further communalist goals. And communalism can further the goals of ideologically specific libertarian communist groups through creation of and social insertion within communal assemblies as direct action and mutual aid organs (in such a way that still retains an “organizational pluralism” of sorts via social insertion in community, union, student spheres and beyond). Such a sublation of libertarian communism, communalism, syndicalism, and ways ideologically specific libertarian communist groups can interface with mass movements can potentially move social ecological praxis forward. "

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/a-friendly-critique-of-bookchins

#anarchism #socialism #communism #communalism #commons #syndicalism #organization #electoralism #platformism #especifismo

Our essay Communalism and Especifismo is now on our substack!

"The two praxes combine through social insertion in relation to community assemblies: both through starting communal assemblies and helping to develop already existing community associations into ones that use a cluster of liberatory practices. Additionally such communalist social insertion means developing community assemblies within or connected to social movements to help achieve the goals of social movements when that makes sense in specific contexts."

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/communalism-and-especifismo

#anarchism #socialism #communism #communalism #municipalism #assemblies #commons #especifismo #libertarianism #platformism #organization