Thursday, April 24, 2025

Negative dialectics

 How Anarchism helped make Marxism so bad.  It's a crude schematic - as follows.

Stirner was seen as a rival. This presages the Marxist heresy called right opportunism.

Proudhon was seen as rival so the resulting polemics anticipated left deviationism.

Another heresy with capital punishments.  Then Machiavelli was enlisted in order to negate Bakunin.  A range of democratic centralist and proto-Chekist tactics deployed.  See for yourself.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/guillaume/works/bakunin.htm

You decline to help us clean up this mess?

Suit yourself.

We'll divide up most of Asian and annex Cuba without you. Happy trails.



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