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Fourth Quarter 1975

THE ANARCHIST BLACK HAMMER No, 4
COVER:A member of the Woodstock Anarkist Parti in Malmo Sweden is arrested by police at a
large supermarket for leafleting in support of the United Farmworkers boycott durning a
demostration by the Malmb' WAP ant the Industrali Workers of the World(lWW) Such
demostrations and support by WAP members around the world helped in bringing about change
and reform in the farm labor laws effecting the United Farmworkers.(Photo by B.Roslund)
CONTENTS
ANARCHISM - fred woodworth - The Match 1 While these groupings differed over matters pertaining
ANARCHY - ernest mann - Little Free Press • • •5
FELLOW ANARCHISTS LET US NOW STRIDE FEARLESSLY TOGETHER - michael tobin - holland
INMATE GOVERNMENT - red warthan - Bar None.. , .....13
MALE SEXUAL LIBERATION - red warthan - V/AP 14
SELF MANAGEMENT - SMG - australia 15
POEMS - lester tate - WAP and donald Packard - WAP (prisoner) 20
The name of this magazine depicts the Anarchist political color,black,which is the
absence of all governmental color,be it left wing red or right wing blue or anything in
between. It also depicts a symbol of the non-capitalist worker. The Anarchist black
smith is reforming the world of the old into the world of the new. The smithy in not
smashing it,s/he is a worker not a government official. It is a fact that the general
public do not know the true meaning of the words Anarchy,Anarchist and Anarchism. A good
definition of these words, which is generally used by most Anarchists,is found on the
inside back cover of this publication. - You will find within the pages of THE
ANARCHIST BLACK HAMMER articles by anarchists of different views as well as articles by
non-anarchists that are in line with Anarchist ideals,to wit;the freedom of all people
to run their own lives as they see fit without authority over themselves or others.
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^ A l A j O t A t c U j f A
What is Anarchism?
As defined by Anarchists themselves, it is "the philo-
sophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted
by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government
rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as
well as unnecessary." An Anarchist named Emma Goldman
wrote this definition about fifty years ago, but the idea of
Anarchism—that human society would be better off not
having governments—did not originate with Emma Gold-
man or, properly speaking, any other single person we
are today aware of. There have been people of a more or
less Anarchistic leaning in every era and place, although
the actual word "anarchy", compounded out of Greek
root-words meaning "without rule", was coined compari-
tively recently.
You say "more or less". Aren't all Anarchists in com-
plete agreement?
No. Formerly all those who accepted the label of An-
archist to describe themselves were divided into two
main categories: the individualists and the collectivists.
to economics, organization, and general philosophical
orientation, they found common cause in opposing per se-
ttle existence of government.
Today, these two broad divisions still exist, but an-
8 in which people used to be certain that demons and spir-
other enters the picture as well. Referred to loosely by
the term "libertarian", this third grouping or division
holds weakly to the idea that certain forms of coercion
probably ought to be avoided, but, on the whole, the
modern "libertarian'' movement does not attack or con-
demn the basic concept of government in and of itself,
as traditional Anarchism does. The "libertarians" believe
government is not harmful but is in fact desirable when
it is provided by what they call "free contracts". The
distinction here, in other words, is that while Anarchists
oppose all government because they oppose what it is
that governments do, the "libertarians" (again, in the
modern usage only) merely reject the particular manner
in which governments are usually organized. Libertarian-
ism, which is considered to be a phenomenon of t h e
political Right, is rejected by Anarchism, which can be
regarded (a bit imprecisely, perhaps) as a Leftist phil-
osophy.
To Anarchists, the "libertarians"' advocacy of mer-
cenarism is completely mistaken. For, why are the
mercenaries any more to be trusted with power over our
lives than any other political rulers? It is difficult to
see how a person who has, for instance, suffered a beat-
ing at the hands of a so-called free-market policeman is
any the less oppressed than one who has been maltreated
by a policeman in the employ of the more conventional
government. Libertarians object that these abuses will
not occur because Constitution-like documents will con-
tain provisions stating that they are not to occur; An-
archists say that maltreatment of the subject populace
will take place no matter what the supposed sanctions,
because government is, by nature, an institution which
increases constantly in power, owing to a basic instab-
ility. This predisposition to shift toward more authority
and to increasingly interfere in the affairs of its subjects
is an intrinsic quality of all past and present govern-
ments, and it would seem to be inescapable that future
governments will behave in the same way.
W C by F. Woodworth
According to the widest traditions of humanity, govern-
ment is, in fact, absolutely necessary. Do Anarchists
suppose they are right while the vast majority of people,
who do believe we need governments, are wrong? It would
seem that to compare the relative numbers of each
philosophy's adherents, Anarchists are so badly out-
numbered as to be virtually discredited. Most people
affirm a desire for government.
This argument that the majority is against us is not real-
ly so profound. It would be trite to point out specific in-
stances where majorities were completely wrong. History
is filled with them. But more importantly, Anarchists do
not even believe that the majority of the people have in
reality consciously chosen to have any government.
Rather, we feel, they were simply conditioned to believe
the rationales for governments; and in any event, these
governments usually existed even before the birth of any
person who is ruled by them, making the question so
obscure that most people have failed to consider it at
all. The acceptance of government is an acculturated
value. Who questions the germ theory of disease? This
is not to imply that that theory is necessarily wrong; but
considering the way we all accept it virtually on faith,
for all we know, it might be wrong. This is the same way
its existed and caused misfortune, etc. The current age
may indeed be one of enlightenment—that is, enlighten-
ment of a type pertaining to scientific theory. But let's
not kid ourselves by pretending that people today are
less gullible than they ever were.
If people have "accepted" government, it is no won-
der. But whether this kind of acceptance has anything in
common with a true, conscious choice by a person who
fairly considers alternatives and is not forced into this
or that mental set by schooling or early training, ought
to be obvious— it is not any kind of actual, conscious
choice at all. The truth of the matter is that the people
are believers in the necessity of the State only because
of the engineering of—the deliberate creation of—this
self-perpetuating belief by governments themselves. They
accomplish this feat through the indoctrinations of their
schools, churches, and sundry means of propaganda
which permeate the entire culture of nations. But what-
ever the truth may happen to be with respect to any par-
ticular question, we repeat that this truth is in no way
affected by what the majority may believe.
Supposing that this is correct—that governments further
the very attitudes required to ensure their own survival,
how is it that anyone ever comes to be an Anarchist
within such a milieu?
There can be no one answer to this question. Some An-
archists become so after discovering some item of litera-
ture by or about Anarchists. Or else they meet and talk
with Anarchists and are swayed by their arguments. Still
others (but this is the exception) reason out government-
less philosophies of their own by themselves, and only
later discover what correct label to affix to their logic.
But aside from just a few trends or tendencies, very little
is known about the psychology of getting to be an An-
archist.
What do Anarchists do?
Like anyone concerned with changing society, they try to
convince other people that government is unnecessarily
intruding in this or that area, and also provide a consis-
tent analysis showing from this that there is no necessity
for it in other areas. In other words, Anarchists propagan-
dize. Propaganda, despite the bad overtones which the
word has acquired, (because of the bad example set by
governments, actually) is literally the only way to root the
State out of its position, for the nature of government is
such that if people did not—as we say—legitimize it by
permitting it to make decisions binding them, it could
not exist.
Our propaganda can be through the word, in writing,
public speaking or personal conversations; or, in certain
instances, propaganda takes the form of some demon-
stration specifically against government (as contrasted to
demonstrations which call upon the government to perform
some action). But in no sense is our propaganda modeled
after the propaganda of governments, which practically
ram their messages down the people's throats with high-
pressure salesmanship. We can do without high-pressure
salesmanship. We want to convince people in a rational
way, not create another reflection of the unthinking ac-
ceptance people maintain for government. To try to create
an Anarchist society in that way would be disastrous.
Blind acceptance of anything is antithetical to the An-
archistic ideal of freedom which desires to bring about
a condition of freedom that can only exist when people
think for themselves.
Your answers make no mention of assassinations or the
use of bombs, activities with which Anarchists are in-
evitably associated in the public's mind. What about
this association with violence which Anarchism has; is
there any basis for it?
We feel there is not. The philosophy of Anarchism is not
intrinsically related to the question of violence, even
if some Anarchist individual may occasionally (as all
kinds of people do) commit some sort of violent act. An-
archists are unfairly linked with violence. When some
Democrat kills another in a bar, no newspaper ever re-
ports that "a self-avowed Democrat killed one man and
injured two in a brawl at the..." etc. But let an Anarchist
do something like this and see the condemnation which
is heaped upon the whole movement. In reality, we have
heard of clean-cut Republicans who have climbed with
rifles up into high towers from where they insanely kill
innocent passers-by below. Are Republicans universally
stigmatized because of this?
Violence is, at least at the present stage of human
development, something of a universal activity. At times
it may even be necessary, when one must defend oneself,
resist a dictator, etc. But it is in no way an integral part
of Anarchist beliefs.
This is unfortunate if Anarchism is precluded from an in-
telligent appraisal because of its bad name. Why don't
Anarchists call themselves by some other name and get
around the problem?
Because that doesn't work. The only reason Anarchism
has such a bad name is that people with a vested interest
in government have deliberately slandered us. The sylla-
bles of the word did not just magically acquire all this
connotation of evil, and the fact is that we Anarchists
are not the monsters that we are made out to be—so
somebody had to see to it that we were systematically
denigrated. Thus we feel that if we called ourselves
"sans-govemists", or some other name we could invent,
IT would eventually suffer also the same predictable
libel in newspaper articles and children's textbooks, and
so what is the use? Anyhow, as Anarchism has no lead-
ers to impose usage, there is no way of ensuring uniform-
ity even if we desired it, which, at least here, we don't.
Governments can change whole nations from one system
of terminology to another merely by imposing it as law.
Anarchists think that that itself is a thing to oppose.
Occasionally, as an experiment, Anarchists have in-
dividually tried calling themselves by some other name.
But then, when they speak to people, their hearers are not
fooled. After a little while they exclaim: "Why, you're
just an Anarchist!" There's no escaping it, and anyway
we're a bit proud to be so disreputably thought of by a
culture wherein violence, crime, and inhumanity called
law and order, are rife.
How would public services be organized under Anarchy?
First of all, I should remark that it is a mistake to talk
about life "under" Anarchy. There is no "under". The
implication of "under" is that a uniform system is to be
imposed upon everyone, and that standard solutions to
societal problems will be accepted and take precedence
over the ones of today, so that instead of living under
the present system, we live under a new one. In reality,
the nature of the projected pluralistic Anarchy is such
that a wide diversity is not only tolerated, but encour-
aged. Many techniques, not merely a single one, would
find acceptance among varying groups of people who had
different ideas about what they wanted to accomplish, and
different criteria to determine if they were succeeding at it.
Very often, when a person says "public services", he
or she has in mind something quite definite, and simply
assumes that everyone else postulates the need for it
too. As an example, some would claim that free public
schools are their idea of a necessary service which would
have to be provided for. Others, who have different ideas
about how learning takes place, see no need whatever
for schools. The idea here isn't to make one or the other
of these groups "give in"; instead we should adopt a
live-and-let-live attitude and not try to figure out ways to
force people who don't want or need schools (for example)
to help set them up and keep them going; or to prevent
others who are interested in them from implementing their
ideas. People's opinions about what is necessary are of-
ten greatly unlike each other, and this is as it should be.
But today, under the governmental system, even people
who oppose the public schools and who never make use
of them are compelled to pay for them. The essence of
this system, unlike Anarchy, is standardization and uni-
formity. Under it, everyone in an entire country can be
forced to aid in the realization of one person's pet pro-
ject. In the Anarchy, or freely constituted network of vol-
untary relationships, "public services" would be organ-
ized anywhere that people were interested in seeing them
made reality, and would be made possible by the help of
like-minded individuals who would support the projects if
they wanted them. Similarly, people would be under no
compulsion to support projects which they felt were un-
deserving, and if nobody believed that some "service"
was necessary, it very likely would disappear until such
time as interest rekindled and people were willing to ex-
tend support again.
This is the reply to every question about roads,
schools, hospitals, post offices, and the like. As for the
objection that people might, for example, travel on a road
that they had not helped to pay for, my answer is: so
what? Is that an argument against the free society? If so,
it is an argument against the coercive society too, be-
cause even with compulsory funding through taxation,
some people never do contribute to the maintenance of
services which they use. If one-third of the whole pop-
ulation saw the necessity for establishing medical cen-
ters, and did so, and if then deadbeats from the other
two-thirds of the people began to "steal" use of the
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service, such a service could probably not continue to
function, and would cease. In the event that this hap-
pened, and if there was still a need for medical services,
personal responsibility would of necessity reappear among
the irresponsible portion of the people.
But more likely than this is that changes in attitudes
resulting from the abandonment of the present governmen-
tal system of institutionalized irresponsibility would al-
ready have precluded any such desire arising to evade
payment for services rendered. In any case, within a short
time, free interaction would tend to establish a high
level of personal responsibility. Importantly, as long as
government exists, self-reliance and responsibility are
constantly eroded, making more laws "necessary" to
force compliance; of course, this has the effect of erod-
ing self-reliance even further...
Admittedly there are many wrongs and abuses. We all
recognize that government has become too large and its
bureaucracy has intruded into areas where it is com-
pletely unneeded. But wouldn't you agree that it is
somewhat unrealistic to demand an end to government
altogether? Wouldn't it be better to try to simply reduce
government to an acceptable level?
For us, no level is acceptable. We refuse to pay for
"services" which we hate and reject, and of course gov-
ernment cannot function at all without taxation. "Liberal"
governments only reshuffle priorities. And so-called
"limited" governments somehow never stay "limited" at
all. The government of the United States is a fine ex-
ample of a government which once operated on a much
lower scale but which, in a process greatly resembling
maturation, "grew up" from its "limited" infancy into an
"unlimited" monstrous adulthood. What good were its
limits, when they are finally outgrown?
The reason there can be no acceptable level, even if
a lower level of government could be attained and kept,
is that, as the basis of all governments is robbery, or
compulsory taxation, any talk of "good governments" is
only pretense that there is such a thing as good robbery.
As with murder, the principle itself is wrong. There are
no good governments.
The only meaningful change that can be made in
government is to change its gathering of income from a
demanded requirement to a request which can be ig-
nored, and to remove the authoritarian nature from it so
that no one must listen to it, abide by its decisions, sup-
port it, be bound by it. But since to remove these authori-
tarian attributes from government, is to remove the very
qualities that makes government government, we say that
there can be no meaningful change in it except that kind
that abolishes it entirely.
As for the objection that we are "unrealistic", gov-
ernment itself is, in our view, the more unrealistic; it
promises peace but delivers war. It institutionalizes rob-
bery as its means of "protection" against the criminals
who might commit robbery. Its conscription enslaves us
so as to force us to defend ourselves against enslave-
ment by foreign countries' governments. Its police sur-
veillance, its continually augmenting pile of laws to
which no one can be safe from accidental disobedience,
show that in "protecting" us, government actually in-
vades farther than the alleged criminal or anti-freedom
elements from which we are "protected." Government is an
unrealistic, unworkable, Utopian dream. It has been so
demonstrated and proved countless times.
People feel that without a system of laws and police,
there would be chaos in human society. Don't you think
that there is some real basis for this fear?
If there is such a basis in reality, it is only a product of
the present authoritarian order. Suppose a heroin addict
claims he cannot live without his drug; does that mean
that heroin is a basic human need? That would be getting
things backward—mistaking effects for causes.
In other words, I mean that the supposed "need" for
government is an artificial dependency, manufactured by
those in control who naturally want to stay in control.
We Anarchists think that people can live in peace with a
really low incidence of true crime, once the responsibil-
ity-destroying cause of today's "crimes"—namely, the
authoritarian system of laws and enforced morality—is
finally removed.
You mean you are saying that the Anarchist society
might still have some crime? Isn't this a justification for
retaining government?
Not unless government itself could reduce crime to
nothing. The fact of the matter is, government increases
all the time, but so does crime. If the governmentalists
were right, as government increased, crime would de-
crease. Yet this does not happen; in fact, the opposite
happens. It is possible that random, arbitrary crimes will
always take place; however, we do know that all of the
so-called "victimless crimes" are not really crimes in
any sense, and with the abolition of government, the
whole category of crimes occasioned by the existence of
government now, including tax evasion, draft resistance,
"sedition", lese majeste, etc., would simply no longer
exist. As for the others, the true crimes such as murder,
rape, robbery, and so on, these appear to be symptoms of
the present cultural disorder perpetuated by government,
rather than the justification for government as some peo-
ple erroneously imagine.
In a social situation wherein a cancerously expanding
series of laws renders more and more possible varieties of
behavior illegal and "criminal", the number of so-called
criminals is bound to increase. This is an obvious reason
to stop, before everyone is turned into a "criminal", and
it is equally a reason to reverse the process so that the
laws diminish. The end of the diminishment of laws, the
condition of no laws—the Anarchy—is our ideal.
So you do admit that some random violence against per-
sons might occur as a result of unpredictable factors and
unbalanced individuals. Wouldn't we need protection from
these acts of violence?
By "protection", I presume you mean police?
Yes.
Then what if the "unbalanced individual" whom you are
so worried about happened to be a policeman?
I suppose I would have to protect myself.
Indeed you would, provided that you had not already del-
egated so much responsibility and power to your protector-
attacker that you had no defenses left. But this is an ar-
gument against the State again, not against Anarchy, for
in the free society the ultimate protector is yourself—
you who are in this incorruptible.
But as for the original objection, I answer that life is
a series of risks which everybody has to take. Intelligence
or stupidity will maximize or minimize our chances for
survival, but there is never any guarantee that a person
is absolutely safe. As you amble along the city sidewalk,
you risk having a flowerpot plunge into your skull from a
point seventeen stories above. You may burden yourself
with a steel umbrella, or drive an armored car everyplace
you go, from neurotic fear of falling objects, but you have
really solved nothing. Such "solutions" only substitute a
more onerous burden for that posed by the original risk,
and lower life's quality farther than the previous danger.
Exactly the same is true in the case of the State and in
the case of police, armies, and other such stultifying
and ruinous remedies for the unknown problems of our
existences.
Regardless of their several faults which you have point-
ed out—that they are ordered in compulsion, based on a
technical theft which is taxation, and maintained solely
by popular prejudice excited through propaganda—
haven't the world's governments still done the best that
could be done to make civilization progress?

Isn't it true that for all their lackings, governments
are familiar and predictable, while Anarchy, which has
never been tried, is completely unpredictable?
What about revolutionary governments, such a s those
of the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China—
aren't those at least closer to your position, and there-
fore less to be condemned?
I will answer these questions in order, with a short
preface: Government is essentially a hysterical reaction
to existing conditions. Whereas ordinary people will
normally rank interpersonal violence as a last resort of
social breakdown or crisis, government operates with
violence as its immediate priority; determined courses of
action are decreed, not voluntarily decided upon; ordered,
not freely accepted. If the principle of government were
extended consistently and uniformly throughout society,
true chaos would result—every civilized relationship
would give way to the gun or knife: force, not persuasion.
We have only the principle of Anarchy operating—the
principle of no compulsion—to thank for the fact that the
present social condition is not as faulty as it might be.
Numerous social interactions even today still take place
with an absence of compulsion, although State-ordained
procedures are of course increasing daily. In the remain-
ing spontaneous relationships between persons there is
no ubiquitous policeman interceding (yet); nonetheless T
most transactions, conversations, even quarrels, are ac-
complished without resort to coercion. Government's
standard operating procedure is to use coercion first and
discuss matters afterward: "Under penalty of three years
in the federal penitentiary or $10,000 fine, or both, you
are herewith required to..." etc. This reversal of proper
order, and exaggerated tendency to resort to force, is
completely typical of governments; the tendency to
place social compulsion uppermost is certainly not nat-
ural or justified. It should be noted that even those peo-
ple who defend government get along fine without it in
their relations with friends or neighbors, most of the
time, and would think a person rude, insulting and vio-
lent who behaved privately as governments do publicly.
I reply to the above questions thusly: To the extent
that people have been able to ignore their various gov-
ernments, civilization has progressed. If we were to have
a method to calculate what the world would be like to-
day had the thousands of wars of history not occurred; if
we could determine what negative effect was exercised
by the numberless benighted laws, arrogances, and inter-
ference of governments, we would see that their exist-
ence has retarded and hampered the actual advance of
of mankind, rather than aiding it.
And true, governments are familiar and predictable
enough. In all the literature of the subject there is not one
recorded instance of a government following any other
course than that of compulsion and arbitrary authority,
growing constantly in power, until it intrudes into the
whole of society, at which point society can no longer
function and a revolution is made necessary to throw off
the chains of bureaucracy and repression. Then, promptly,
tragicomically, they institute a new government which it-
self travels full cycle and has to be overthrown in a few
years more. Yes, this is all quite familiar.
But the social principle of Anarchy is familiar and
predictable also. Whenever one person helps another;
whenever people solve their problems and no policeman
or law instructs or compels—in short, at the taking place
of any human development which is not mandated, or-
dained, decreed, controlled or interfered in by a legisla-
ture or by someone acting so as to force a result, we have
the principle of Anarchy at work. It is ordinarily claimed
that this social Anarchy, which is thought to be evil, can
only be overcome and regulated by governments, which
are thought to be necessary, so that society can "work".
I assert that this explanation is false and the exact op-
posite of the correct description of affairs, which is that
the social principle of government, itself evil (in the
sense that it does harm) is only overcome so that society
can work, by the principle of Anarchy, or freedom, spon-
taneously asserting itself in the uncontrolled interstices
of the social matrix.
Only selective enforcement of the laws and wide-
spread disobedience of them prevents the chaos of un-
workable regimentation. If the laws are "made to be
broken, why make them at all?
Whoever has had an idea which would have increased
the leisure and pleasure of all people, (this is the pur-
pose and definition of progress) has labored to defy the
massed force of social compulsion—government—and,
when succeeding, has achieved a true victory for Anarchy.
The self-styled revolutionary nature of some govern-
ments deserves only contemptuous disdain from Anarch-
ists. Some crisis of "the heroic party" or some alleged
danger to "the people's State" inevitably provides a jus-
tification for suspension of civil liberties, crackdowns on
artists, stoppage of critical commentary, etc. If such so-
cieties continue to function, it is in a limited sense: the
people are watched and checked, and everyone salutes,
robotlike, or parrots slogans. These are not "closer" to
the Anarchist position, but rather, more remote from it.
But wouldn't an Anarchist society be just as repressive
as the Statist ones, only to a different class of people?
For instance, wouldn't the occasional governmentalist
be in the same position then that the Anarchist is now,
that is, as a persecuted "radical"?
Today there is a legal-judicial system in existence,
responsive to the whims of the ruling class, which car-
ries out sanctions against people who are "different". In
the contemplated Anarchy there is neither a judicial sys-
tem nor a ruling class. Nor are Anarchists worried about
"subversion" of their society's principles because the
very same forces that grew powerful enough to force the
demise of the State through refusal to support it any long-
er, would presumably act to assure that it did not re-
appear. Provided that there was anybody who felt maso-
chistically displeased at the scarcity of bosses or
tyrants or ruling cliques to order their lives for them,
perhaps such pathetic individuals would cater to each
other's peculiar deviance. If there were any such frustrat-
ed authoritarians, they would naturally be quite free to
denounce the Anarchist society through their own press
and through speeches, and so on. Undoubtedly they would
provoke lively discussions and disagreements—perhaps
even serve a necessary function by way of contrasting as
"horrible examples" and so illustrate the advantages of
the free society.
The Anarchist revolution is not intended to substi-
tute any new ruling group for old. Unlike other revolution-
aries, Anarchists have no "ulterior motives" for carrying
on their work: no promised positions in a "provisional
government" or assured berths as prominent officials "after
the revolution." There's nothing in it for Anarchists ex-
cept the satisfaction of working for their own freedom and
that of others.
Can the goal of Anarchism be achieved, and if so, how?
A considerable amount of re-education will have to be ac-
complished before people come to see the desirability of
ending the perpetuation of government. Unless people
agree that government is unnecessary, simple destruc-
tion of the existing government can accomplish nothing;
popular demand would immediately put a new one in its
place. When people do agree that government is un-
needed, total withdrawal of support will render their gov-
ernments impotent without resources and will signal their
imminent collapse. As there is no Anarchist society with-
out Anarchists, and as Anarchists are only "made" by
rational discourse and understanding, these processes
ought to be encouraged and actively helped along by all
those who oppose government already.
It is both easy and difficult to be a "member" of the
Anarchist movement. Then> are no entrance fees or mem-
bership cards, but everyone who has a sincere wish
to participate in this quest for freedom, is welcome. Seek
out other Anarchists and add your efforts to theirs; add
their efforts to yours. Improve your understanding of all
subjects which can be useful in this work. Constantly
question every aspect of authoritarian society; launch an
unremitting assault on all ignorance and superstition, and
upon every common, unthinkingly-accepted notion which
helps to justify the continuing delay of total emancipa-
tion. Read and listen to what other Anarchists have had
to say, and disagree with them unhesitatingly at those
points where they seem to be wrong. Publish, speak,
write, or assist these activities; organize like-minded
people so that collective as well as individual effort can
be put to use to achieve our common goal!
Even so doing, success is not guaranteed. Can An-
archy be achieved? Even among Anarchists the spectrum
of opinion ranges from that of the extreme pessimists,
who believe that Anarchy is a beautiful ideal, but one
which we will never reach, to those cheerful optimists
who predict that government is all but dead already. And
today's pessimists are the optimists of two years ago.
Somewhere in between these positions of great cer-
tainty, the remainder of Anarchists go on, sometimes
doubtfully, but always hopefully.
A N A R C H Y
ARE WE LIKE PAPER CUPS?
Are we filled with ideals, hot air and promises that
don't put any real strength into our cup?
When the big giants step on us, do we get smashed
down and squashed? Are the big giants the big cor-
porate trusts who can regulate prices,wages, politicians,
rules, quality and laws.
Do we continually get squashed down as they contin-
ually walk all over us?
Let's put some common sense and logical cooperation
into our cups. Like clay, not pie in the sky. Let's
bake this common sense and cooperation with the
fire of heated argument and discussion, until it's hard
as a brick.
Then when the giants step on us they will not squash
us but we will roll and remain firm. They will fall.
They won't have a place to stand because we'll roll
together.
They will never be able to rise again and they will
wither away.
Once we start cooperating and helping each other they
will have no way to control us.
Fill your cup with clay, brother and sister!
IS AN HOUR OF YOUR LIFE WORTH MORE TO
YOU, THAN AN HOUR OF ANYONE ELSE'S LIFE
IS WORTH TO HIM OR HER?
Then why should one person get paid more per hour
than another?
So, if we all got paid the same wages, why bother with
wages at all?
If people were allowed to work at any work that they
liked and got free training on the job and the workers
together controlled their work, would people then
work for the love of work, instead of for money?
Would workers be glad to train more people and there-
by reduce the working hours for everyone?
If we worked for free, our products would be free (I'll
bet we'd quit making a lot of junk). When everything
that we want is free, who will need to steal?
Today I can't see that there is a free county anywhere.
I can see the need for a free world which would mean
free people—free persons.
The 'ogic of it all is available for anyone to examine.
All it takes is the desire and the courage to look for
truth. J
Which is of more value: Life or property?
Would you trade your life for a car or for a million
dollars? What good would it be to you if you were
dead? Then, what gives us the right to kill a man if he
is stealing a car or robbing a bank? Isn't his life also
worth more than property?
Isn't life also worth more than ideals? Of what use is
an ideal if you are dead?
Isn't life worth more than nationalism? What good is
a nation? We are all inhabitants on this planet called
"Earth". No one has any more right to life or to this
planet's natural resources than anyone else. So why do
we need nations and corrupt governments to support?
•
Somewhere, sometime, way back, some crafty person
invented competition. Now it is the name of the game,
the world over. It keeps people (yes nations) fighting
one another. It makes it much more difficult to live.
It would seem to me to be a good time to introduce co-
operation to this planet's people. This may be the key-
secret to peace, plenty, and happiness for all people.
 We now have the means of instant mass communication,
tremendous production capabilities, vast computer-
stored knowledge which will make it easy to supply
the world's people's needs in abundance.
By cooperating instead of competing we will discon-
tinue the obsolete "profit motive" oriented economic
system which teaches "Charge all the traffic will bear"
and start doing things for people (life) instead of for
profit (death).
• If we realize that the army and police force are com
When we build things for people; we'll build them to
work well, last a long time and be easy to repair. This
will cut down on our working hours because we won't
have to be continually building new ones for replace-
ment.
• Then who will be left to stop us?
Seems to me this cooperation system would be better
for everyone so it should be really easy to implement.
First of all I guess we would have to start talking about
it. We would all have to understand it thoroughly.
Much discussion and arguing would help the truth of
cooperation to come out.
People couldn't be expected to change to this Free
World Idea unless they could see how it would be bet-
ter for them. When everyone understood it there
would be no need for revolution or blood shed, we
would just quit using money and begin cooperating.
We would of course need to reveal to people all the
ways that crafty people accumulate power so that no
one would allow another to rule him or her.
This TRUTH OF COOPERATION cannot be kept
hidden any longer. It is now too obvious.
This TRUTH presents such gigantic opportunities for
happiness that few people will be content to put these
ideas aside until they are realized.
I can't even see a need for any kind of government
when we start cooperating.
You can begin now to do your part. You can write to
me and we can argue or discuss. Perhaps both of us
will then have a better understanding. Or, if you are
already convinced perhaps you can get this paper re-
printed in some other paper or magazine. Or you can
have several copies printed and distribute them. Or,
you can rewrite the ideas into your own words and
distribute them.
And you can start to talk to your friends about this
idea of COOPERATION. It is very important that you
help because everyone must understand.
Here is a good example of what one person can do to
publicize an idea.
If you could just convince two people so well that they
would each convince two more people to do the same-
here is what would happen: The Numbers Pyramid.
You convince 2 people who each convince 2 more =
4 persons who each convince 2 = 8 who each con
vince 2 = 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, etc., etc.
Do you realize that if each person convinced his or her
two people the next day, that in 30 days we would
have over 300 million people convinced? That's about
twice the U.S. population.
Of course I know that it will not happen that quickly.
But it does show how important you and I are, and
what you and I may accomplish.
It is not forcing anything on anybody. But merely
introducing an idea to them. If our idea is a TRUTH
it will take root.
As for myself, I can't see any work or play that is more
important for me to be doing at this moment than to
try to introduce this idea to you.
I can see many really good people doing all that they
can do to make things better in areas that they see are
wrong. As they begin to see competition as the cause
of these wrongs, I expect they will redirect their tre-
mendous energies toward introducing the truth about
cooperation.
HOW CAN ANY PERSON OWN LAND? IT WAS
HERE LONG BEFORE MAN. IT IS HERE. WE ARE
HERE.
LET ALL LIFE SHARE IT.
How can any person or corporation own a factory,
apartment building or mine? These places were built
and are operated by the labors of many many persons.
The raw materials and the tools came from the labors
of many many people.
Would you work and do your share if you could work
at a work you liked and everything that you wanted
was free?
You might say that some people wouldn't work if they
didn't have to. But I doubt that. If they were offered
the same opportunities as you, I think that they would
all find some work that they liked. There is a great
satisfaction and joy in doing a work one likes. I doubt
that they would wish to miss this.
You might also say that there is a lot of work that no
one would like to do. I would guess that if they
couldn't invent a better way of doing the job to make
it enjoyable or if fhey couldn't automate it, then, per-
haps it shouldn't pet done.
If some could put these ideas to music it might
speed up the transfer of this truth.
Others might put them in a novel.
I expect the TRUTH OF COOPERATION ideas will
spread to the rest of the world because there are
people here who speak another language and will re-
turn to their native land to teach cooperation there.
Another thing that I think will bring the world's people
closer together in understanding will be a universal
language that the computer should be able to invent.
If it starts from scratch I should think it could come
up with sounds that would be easy for any nation's
people to pronounce and a simple grammar. Prob-
ably a language far superior to any other. One that
could be taught as a second language on TV, radio,
tapes, etc.
"Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is
impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing
in itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and
though man may be kept ignorant he cannot be made
ignorant."
Thomas Paine (1791)
Our present cars kill 1,052 people per week and injuie
90,386 people per week in the U.S. alone. Besides the
millions of other life forms they kill and cripple. This
is insane.
It seems probably to me that when we build for people
instead of for profit we will devise a method of trans-
portation that will not kill.
Was it Cezar who said "Give the people bread and
circus to keep them quiet."
Well, we're sure getting a lot of circus now from
Watergate and wars.
But the price of the ticket is pretty high.
If you say to me "What's wrong with the present
world system?" I'd have to say to you, "Get out of
your rut for a little while and just take a look around.
See for yourself."
i
Most of us are or were in such deep cyclic ruts that we
can't or couldn't see what's happen'en.
When the good people who work on TV, radio and the
big papers and magazines start to help with this idea,
then it will grow much faster.
posed of working peoplj we can then see the need to
introduce the TRUTH OF COOPERATION ideas to
them. They are our brothers, fathers, sons, uncles or
friends and they will need to understand too.
I retired 4 years ago (age 42) and was then in a position
to buy about anything I wanted. But I soon discovered
the fact that I didn't really want any things. I just
wanted to be able to use them once in a while. It's
like who would want to own and keep up a large air
plane. But I like to ride in one occasionally. I even
got rid of my car. All that I own now I can put in a
bag and carry on my back. It's sure a lot less hassle.
I have discovered my needs to be very few now. I need
food but not as much or as expensive as before. I need
a place to get in out of the cold with a warm friend. I
need some clothes (to keep out of jail). And these I
get at rummage sales. (The clothes cost me $1.50
that I wore on my recent trip to Europe.)
I have been a very small consumer, lately. The best
things in life are free. Soon I hope all people can be
free to do what they please with their lives.
Should you wish to correspond with me about these
ideas, it would be appreciated if you can enclose a
self-addressed stamped envelope. This would save me
considerable time and money as there are several cor-
respondents now. But I am sincerely anxious to cor-
respond with you too.
There are no dues, no money to send, nothing to join.
There is thinking and work to be done.
ERNEST MANN
For information about how to get this
FREE SYSTEM, send a stamped addressed
long envelope to: Little Free Press, 715 E.
14 Street, Minneapolis, Minn. 55404.
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F E L L O W A N A R C H I S T S , L E T US N O W
STRIDE FEARLESSLY T O G E T H E R !
( T h e f o l l o w i n g i s t h e t e x t of a s p e e c h
made by Michael Tobin at a t h r e e - d a y
i n t e r n a t i o n a l g a t h e r i n g of A n a r c h i s t s i n
N e u l u s s h e i m , W e s t Germany, on the
5th, 6th, and 7th J u l y , 1975.)
T h i s i s the first t i m e I have s p o k e n
i n p u b l i c i n t h e ' F a t h e r l a n d of F a s c i s m 1 .
A n d what a g r e a t p l e a s u r e it i s to s p e a k
a t t h i s l a r g e g a t h e r i n g of f e l l o w A n a r c h -
i s t s h e r e in the fields outside the little
t o w n of N e u l u s s h e i m . F r o m a l l o v e r
Europe we have c o m e to m e e t e a c h other,
to g e t t o k n o w e a c h o t h e r , a n d t o e s t a b -
l i s h fruitful contacts for the future.
The last time I w a s in W e s t G e r m a n y
w a s b a c k i n 1 9 5 2 . In t h o s e d a y s m a n y p a r t s
of t h e f o r m e r T h i r d R e i c h w e r e i n r u i n s .
I c a n s t i l l r e m e m b e r s e e i n g s t r e e t s of
b u r n e d o u t a n d b l a c k e n e d h o u s e s . In p a r -
ticular, I r e m e m b e r seeing tall factory
c h i m n e y s s t i c k i n g o u t of t h e r u i n s of
i n d u s t r i a l a r e a s of t h e R u h r .
Today the r u i n s a r e g o n e . But what
c a u s e d the r u i n s and t h e h o r r o r and t h e i n -
describable human suffering i s still with
u s . A n d if w e d o n o t t a k e p r o p e r a n d
effective action now h i s t o r y will r e p e a t
itself in an even more horrible form.
For Fascism, particularly German
F a s c i s m , i s now showing only too
c l e a r l y t h a t it i s s t i l l v e r y m u c h a l i v e .
F a s c i s m i s a m u c h u s e d t e r m . But for
many people F a s c i s m is identified in
their e y e s only with Hitler's G e r m a n y ,
M u s s o l i n i ' s Italy, and F r a n c o ' s Spain.
A n y t h i n g w h i c h i s n o t a m i r r o r i m a g e of
t h e s e r e g i m e s i s not f a s c i s t i n t h e i r
eyes. This attitude, however, i s a very
wrong one to take. F o r it blinds one to
the g r i m d e v e l o p m e n t s which a r e taking
p l a c e i n o u r w o r l d of t o d a y . W h a t m u s t
be u n d e r s t o o d from the s t a r t i s that
r e g i m e s like H i t l e r ' s and Mussolini's
o n e s w e r e f a s c i s t r e g i m e s o n l y of t h e
most c r u d e kind. They w e r e openly
brash and brutal. The jackboot, the
c o s h , a n d t h e g u n w e r e t h e s y m b o l s of
such r e g i m e s . One could indeed call these
particular r e g i m e s first generation fas-
c i s t s t a t e s . T h e y sought to d o m i n a t e
t h e i r c i t i z e n s a n d p e o p l e s in t h e s u r -
8 9
rounding countries by brute force and
c o a r s e p r o p a g a n d a . In t h e e n d a f t e r a
most savage world war they w e r e
eventually beaten.
But when they w e r e b e a t e n F a s c i s m
did not die with t h e m . F a r f r o m it. F o r
F a s c i s m i s something that i s part and
p a r c e l of e v e r y m o d e r n S t a t e . W h a t h a p -
pened in G e r m a n y and Italy during the
1 9 2 0 ' s a n d 3 0 ' s w a s t h a t t h e v i r u s of
F a s c i s m gave r i s e to ugly and h o r r i b l e
g r o w t h s o n t h e b o d i e s of t h e s e t w o
n a t i o n - s t a t e s . A s a r e s u l t of t h e S e c o n d
World War these growths were chopped
o f f . B u t t h e v i r u s of f a s c i s m w a s n o t
d e s t r o y e d . It c o u l d n o t b e u n l e s s t h e
G e r m a n and Italian state machines t h e m -
selves w e r e destroyed and an Anarchist
s o c i a l s y s t e m p u t i n p l a c e of t h e m b y
their peoples.
F a s c i s m i s a n a s p e c t of e v e r y m o d e r n
state m a c h i n e . And it can be r e a d i l y
d e m o n s t r a t e d that this is so. Basically,
Fascism is ultra-nationalist, is reaction-
a r y , a n d i s b o t h e l i t i s t a n d r a c i a l i s t . It i s
u l t r a - n a t i o n a l i s t in that it puts the i n - -
t e r e s t s of t h e s t a t e a b o v e a l l e l s e . It i s
r e a c t i o n a r y i n that it s e e k s to r e t a i n o r
even r e n e w old antiquated national t r a d i -
t i o n s , w a y s , a n d m y t h s . It i s e l i t i s t i n
t h a t i t p r o m o t e s t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t of
r u l i n g e l i t e s m a d e u p of s o - c a l l e d s u p e r -
i o r people destined to r u l e over the s o -
c a l l e d i n f e r i o r w o r k i n g m a s s e s . W h i l e it
i s r a c i a l i s t in that it a s s u m e s the m e m -
b e r s of i t s o w n n a t i o n a r e s u p e r i o r t o
o t h e r p e o p l e s , p a r t i c u l a r l y t h o s e of a
m a r k e d l y different r a c e and color.
T h e s e a r e t h e f o u r b a s i c e l e m e n t s of
f a s c i s m . And when one t a k e s a close
look at o u r w o r l d it i s e a s y to s e e that
t h e y f o r m p a r t of t h e m a k e - u p of a l l
m o d e r n s t a t e s — to a g r e a t e r o r l e s s e r
d e g r e e in each individual c a s e .
But while e v e r y n a t i o n - s t a t e e m b o d i e s
t h e v i r u s of F a s c i s m i t i s i n c o u n t r i e s
such a s W e s t G e r m a n y that this v i r u s i s
giving r i s e to new and ugly fascist
g r o w t h s . H o w e v e r , we n e e d to r e a l i z e
fully that t h i s s e c o n d g e n e r a t i o n f a s -
c i s m in G e r m a n y i s not b e i n g m a n i f e s t e d
i n t h e f o r m of t h e N a z i - s t y l e N u r e m b e r g
r a l l i e s . No, i t i s s h o w i n g i t s e l f i n m u c h
m o r e subtle ways than that. For second
generation German Fascism wears a
m a s k . I n s t e a d of a c a r p e t - e a t i n g H i t l e r ,
at the helm there a r e honey-tongued pol-
itical s h a r k s with d i s a r m i n g s m i l e s . I n -
s t e a d of g a s c h a m b e r s f o r t h e w h o l e s a l e
m u r d e r of t h e b o d i e s of p o l i t i c a l o p p o n -
e n t s and s c a p e g o a t s , it h a s i s o l a t i o n c e l l s
a n d i s c a r r y i n g on r e s e a r c h for t h e
w h o l e s a l e m u r d e r of t h e m i n d s of t h o s e
who d a r e oppose i t s malignant growth.
I n s t e a d of u s i n g t h e W e h r m a c h t t o c o n q u e r
other t e r r i t o r i e s it e xploits o t h e r p e o p l e s
b y m e a n s of i t s p o w e r f u l e c o n o m i c m a -
chine.
A n a r c h i s t s who live in G e r m a n y today
a r e finding out t h r o u g h h a r d a n d b i t t e r
experience that F a s c i s m i s once m o r e r e -
e m e r g i n g h e r e in t h i s c o u n t r y . But t h i s i s
only to be expected. F o r , a s A n a r c h i s t s , we
a r e t h e a r c h - e n e m i e s of F a s c i s m i n e v e r y
f o r m , and so we m u s t expect to b e the f i r s t
t a r g e t s when the G e r m a n state r e g r o w s its
fascist claws. Unfortunately, however, a
few c o m r a d e s have r e e l e d u n d e r the initial
a t t a c k m a d e o n u s 0 I n s t e a d of d e v e l o p i n g
o u r c a p a c i t y to d e f e n d o u r s e l v e s a n d to fight
back, s o m e c o m r a d e s have sought to h e a p
the b l a m e for t h e i r t r o u b l e s on m i l i t a n t
authoritarian socialists such a s the Red
A r m y Fraction. This attitude, however, is
m i s g u i d e d . F o r it i s putting t h e c a r t b e f o r e
t h e h o r s e . T h e b a s i c c a u s e of o u r p r e s e n t
p r o b l e m s in t h i s c o u n t r y i s not t h e M a r x i s t -
Leninist b o m b e r s and k i d n a p p e r s but the
n e w a n d o l d f a s c i s t e l e m e n t s of t h e W e s t
G e r m a n s t a t e . If t h e R e d A r m y F r a c t i o n a n d
t h e S e c o n d of J u n e m o v e m e n t s d i d n o t s p a r k
off t h e c u r r e n t w a v e of r e p r e s s i o n , s o m e t h i n g
e l s e w o u l d h a v e d o n e i t . F o r b e f o r e a n y of
t h e s e g r o u p s c a m e into e x i s t e n c e both the
c a p a c i t y a n d t h e d e s i r e for r e p r e s s i o n
w e r e a l r e a d y p r e s e n t in t h e W e s t G e r m a n
s t a t e . And we will get n o w h e r e until we
g r a s p fully t h i s f u n d a m e n t a l f a c t .
At t h e m o m e n t t h e r e i s a c e r t a i n s e n s e
of d e f e a t i s m i n t h e r a n k s of s o m e c o m -
r a d e s h e r e i n G e r m a n y . O n e of t h e b a s i c
r e a s o n s for this is, I think, b e c a u s e they
a r e looking at the p r e s e n t situation f r o m
t o o n a r r o w a p o i n t of v i e w . T h e y t e n d t o
s e e o n l y G e r m a n y a n d t h e r e p r e s s i o n <>i
A n a r c h i s t s h e r e . And so they a r e inclined
to b e c o m e d o w n h e a r t e d .
It i s t i m e t o e n d t h i s a t t i t u d e . G e r m a n y
i s n o t t h e c e n t e r of t h e w o r l d . A n d s o w h e n
n e o - f a s c i s m c r a c k s down on A n a r c h i s t s in
t h i s c o u n t r y i t d o e s n o t m e a n t h e e n d of
e v e r y t h i n g for u s .
A s A n a r c h i s t s , we m u s t f i r s t and f o r e -
m o s t r e a l i z e t h a t w e b e l o n g t o no l o c a l
political unit. F o r our country i s the
whole world. This m e a n s that there is
no such thing a s a G e r m a n Anarchist, or
a F r e n c h Anarchist, or a J a p a n e s e A n -
archist, or an American Anarchist. There
c a n only be E a r t h or World A n a r c h i s t s
who s e e this whole planet — and indeed
the whole Solar System — a s their
c o u n t r y . It i s t r u e t h a t c i r c u m s t a n c e s
d e m a n d that we live within the f r a m e w o r k
of n a t i o n - s t a t e s b u t t h a t d o e s n o t m e a n
that we h a v e to w e a r the b l i n k e r s that
s t a t e s put o n t h e i r c i t i z e n s a t b i r t h . At
all t i m e s we should r e a l i z e that we
form a world brotherhood. And when
repression strikes our brothers and
s i s t e r s i n a n y p a r t of o u r c o u n t r y , t h e
world, we should deal with it a s a world
b r o t h e r h o o d . So i n s t e a d of c u t t i n g l i n k s
with our b r o t h e r s and s i s t e r s outside
t h e l o c a l a r e a of r e p r e s s i o n w e s h o u l d
be doing our damndest to strengthen
them and establish m o r e .
I t i s v i t a l t h a t a l l of u s e x t e n d o u r v i e w
of t h e p r e s e n t s t r u g g l e s i n v o l v i n g A n -
a r c h i s t s b o t h i n t e r m s of t i m e a s w e l l
a s space. The p r o b l e m s confronting us
i n t h i s p a r t of t h e w o r l d a r e n o t n e w o r
novel ones. And neither i s r e p r e s s i o n
of A n a r c h i s t s a p h e n o m e n o n p e c u l i a r
only to G e r m a n y .
We should always try and r e m e m b e r
that s t r u g g l e s between A n a r c h i s t s and
s t a t e s a r e worldwide and that they have
b e e n going on for m o r e than a c e n t u r y .
If w e d o n o t d o t h i s w e e n d u p g e t t i n g a
v e r y d i s t o r t e d v i e w of o u r o w n l o c a l
s i t u a t i o n . Not a l o n e t h i s b u t i n s u c h
c i r c u m s t a n c e s we can readily develop
a f e e l i n g of i s o l a t i o n w h i c h i n t u r n c a n
l e a d t o a s a p p i n g of o u r m o r a l e a n d w i l l
to s t r u g g l e .
I w o u l d a s k a l l of y o u h e r e t o d a y t o
r e f l e c t u p o n t h i s for a m o m e n t . T h e a g e
of t h e E a r t h i s a b o u t f o u r a n d a half
 b i l l i o n y e a r s o l d . T h e f i r s t k i n d s of
living f o r m s evolved s o m e t h r e e thous-
a n d million y e a r s ago. Some six h u n d r e d
million y e a r s have elapsed since many-
celled c r e a t u r e s first swam in the oceans
of t h e p r i m e v a l E a r t h . W h i l e m o d e r n
M a n b e g a n h i s c a r e e r m a n y t e n s of
t h o u s a n d s of y e a r s a g o .
T h e s e a r e h u g e l e n g t h s of t i m e . A n d
i n t e r m s of e v o l u t i o n o n o u r p l a n e t t h e
hundred y e a r s or so since Anarchists
b e g a n struggling against s t a t e s i s but a
moment in E a r t h time.
D u r i n g t h e e a r l i e r p a r t of t h i s c e n t u r y
m a n y A n a r c h i s t s thought that the e m e r -
g e n c e of a n A n a r c h i s t s o c i e t y o n o u r p l a n e t
w a s i m m i n e n t . But it w a s n ' t . F o r t h e r e
w a s a lot m o r e life left i n t h e n a t i o n -
state than was generally imagined at
t h e t i m e . L o o k i n g b a c k now it i s p o s s i -
b l e t o s e e t h a t A n a r c h i s t s t r u g g l e s of
e a r l i e r d e c a d e s w e r e but the initial
battles in the overall war between An-
a r c h i s t s and the n a t i o n - s t a t e . And it could
not be o t h e r w i s e . F o r the e m e r g e n c e
of a n A n a r c h i s t s o c i e t y o n o u r p l a n e t
will m a r k the greatest step ever taken
b y m a n k i n d . It w i l l i n v o l v e a c o m p l e t e
r u p t u r e with a g e - o l d traditions, ways,
a n d b e l i e f s . I n t e r m s of s o c i a l e v o l u t i o n
t h e c r e a t i o n of a n A n a r c h i s t s o c i e t y w i l l
m e a n that Man h a s at last b e c o m e c i v i l -
i z e d a n d h a s f i n a l l y c a s t off t h e c h a i n s
a n d s u p e r s t i t i o n s of h i s p r i m i t i v e a n d
savage past.
Can it be any s u r p r i s e then that the
A n a r c h i s t s t r u g g l e s of t h e e a r l i e r p a r t
of t h i s c e n t u r y d i d n o t r e s u l t i n i m -
m e d i a t e s u c c e s s ? It w o u l d h a v e b e e n a
m i r a c l e had they succeeded.
W h a t i s of v i t a l i m p o r t a n c e n o w i s
that all A n a r c h i s t s realize and realize
fully that we should not look back upon
t h e l a s t h u n d r e d y e a r s of s t r u g g l e a s a
s e r i e s of d e f e a t s . F o r i t w o u l d b e
t o t a l l y w r o n g to do so. E v e r y l o c a l A n -
a r c h i s t struggle during the last hundred
y e a r s was only a tactical engagement.
And, however important each such
s t r u g g l e might s e e m in itself, it w a s
o n l y a s m a l l p a r t of t h e l o n g - t e r m g l o b a l
s t r u g g l e a i m e d at bringing into being
an Anarchist society.
A n a r c h i s t s now n e e d to d e v e l o p a
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g r a n d strategy in which the struggle
between A n a r c h i s t s and the nation-state
is seen in its c o r r e c t historical p e r -
s p e c t i v e . T h e n , i n s t e a d of l o o k i n g b a c k
t o t h e p a s t a n d t r y i n g to r e l i v e t h e g l o r i e s
of A n a r c h i s t s t r u g g l e s i n R u s s i a a n d i n
Spain we will tend to look to the future.
F r o m s u c h a s t r a t e g i c p o i n t of v i e w
we will r e a l l y b e able to s e e why A n -
a r c h i s t s i n t h e m o d e r n s e n s e of t h e t e r m
e m e r g e d o n t h e s t a g e of h i s t o r y a t a
p a r t i c u l a r h i s t o r i c a l m o m e n t and not
before. A n a r c h i s t s a p p e a r e d on the
historical scene when the Industrial
Revolution, modern science, and p a r -
l i a m e n t a r y f o r m s of g o v e r n m e n t b e g a n
to bring about profound changes in
traditional s t a t e / c l a s s society. We can,
in fact, s a y that m o d e r n A n a r c h i s t s
w e r e b o r n with the technologically-
advanced nation-state. With the b r e a k -
d o w n of a g e - o l d w a y s i n t h e w a k e of
the Industrial Revolution, a need was
c r e a t e d for A n a r c h i s t s . But what w a s
n o t f u l l y u n d e r s t o o d b y A n a r c h i s t s of
an e a r l i e r generation w a s that the
technologically-advanced nation-state
which had e m e r g e d with the Industrial
Revolution, w a s going to l a s t for m o r e
than a few y e a r s and had a c o n s i d e r a b l e
l o t of l i f e i n i t .
• proportions. These c r i s e s m a r k the
Basically, the technologically -
advanced nation-state, which A n a r c h i s t s
h a v e b e e n struggling a g a i n s t for the last
h u n d r e d y e a r s , i s t h e s k e l e t o n of t h e
old s t a t e / c l a s s society d r e s s e d up in a
new way. One c a n say, in fact, that the
technologically-advanced nation-state
r e p r e s e n t s an attempt by s t a t e / c l a s s
society to cope with the new c i r c u m -
s t a n c e s c r e a t e d by the Industrial R e v -
o l u t i o n . A n d t h e v e r y e x i s t e n c e of t h e
technologically-advanced nation-state
shows that this attempt w a s quite s u c -
cessful.
It i s i n d e e d p r e c i s e l y b e c a u s e t h i s
attempt by s t a t e / c l a s s society to cope
with the new conditions w a s quite s u c -
cessful that Anarchists have been unable
to m a k e any significant strategic gains
over the last hundred y e a r s or so. Mod-
ern technology and economic u n d e r -
takings demand an Anarchist social
s y s t e m — i n t o w h i c h t h e y w o u l d fit l i k e
a hand into a g l o v e . But so long a s s t a t e /
c l a s s s o c i e t y w a s able to a d j u s t itself,
however awkwardly, to the new situation,
no A n a r c h i s t society w a s p o s s i b l e . F o r
no n e w society c a n o r e v e r e v e r w a s
b o r n so long a s the old s o c i e t y c o n t i n -
ued to linger on.
B y a d o p t i n g a b r o a d s t r a t e g i c v i e w of
our overall struggle A n a r c h i s t s will
quickly lose any p e s s i m i s m which m a y
have sapped their m o r a l e . They will
r e a d i l y b e a b l e to s e e why the A n a r c h -
i s t s t r u g g l e s of t h e l a s t c e n t u r y d i d n o t
end in our favor. But they will also see
w h y t h e s t r u g g l e s of o u r d a y a n d a g e
a r e going to eventually lead to the
b u i l d i n g of a n A n a r c h i s t s o c i e t y . T h e y
will s e e c l e a r l y , for i n s t a n c e , t h a t t h e
e x i s t e n c e of t h e t e c h n o l o g i c a l l y - a d v a n c e d
n a t i o n - s t a t e h a s b e e n the m a i n r e a s o n
why we j u s t c o u l d not s u c c e e d i n e a r l i e r
t i m e s . A n d why, on the o t h e r h a n d , t h e a u -
t h o r i t a r i a n state s o c i a l i s t s with an
i d e a - s y s t e m m i r r o r i n g t h a t of t h e
state capitalist technologically-advanced
nation-state, have been able to m a k e
s i g n i f i c a n t , if o n l y t e m p o r a r y a d v a n c e s .
But, above all, they will also be able to
s e e t h a t the h i g h - r o a d to a n A n a r c h i s t
future i s now opening up b e c a u s e the
technologically advanced nation-state
i s b e i n g s h a k e n b y c r i s e s of e a r t h q u a k e
d e a t h a g o n y of c l a s s / s t a t e s o c i e t y . It
c a n no l o n g e r cope with the novel c o n -
d i t i o n s of o u r t i m e s . O n l y a n A n a r c h i s t
social s y s t e m can provide the final
a n s w e r to the p r o b l e m s now confronting
mankind.
F a r from being pessimistic, then,
A n a r c h i s t s can rejoice, knowing that the
t i m e f o r t h e b u i l d i n g of a n A n a r c h i s t
s o c i e t y h a s c o m e . I n s t e a d of t a k i n g a
defensive stance, we should now b e going
o v e r t o a s t r a t e g i c o f f e n s i v e . Of c o u r s e ,
the m o d e r n state i s trying to hit u s h a r d .
Of c o u r s e , t h e g u t t e r p r e s s i s t r y i n g t o
b l a c k e n u s a s m u c h a s p o s s i b l e . Of c o u r s e
we a r e meeting with opposition from many
s i d e s . But i s t h a t not o n l y t o b e e x p e c t e d ?
W o u l d i t n o t b e s t r a n g e if n o n e of t h e s e
t h i n g s w e r e h a p p e n i n g ? S u r e l y w e do not
expect to walk along a path s t r e w n with
roses?
L e t u s not fool o u r s e l v e s ! W e a r e in
h a r d t i m e s now. But we a r e going to have
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to f a c e h a r d e r t i m e s b e f o r e v e r y long.
T h e e n d i n g of c l a s s / s t a t e s o c i e t y i s n o t
going to be an easy thing. However rocked
by c r i s e s it m a y b e at t h i s m o m e n t , i t will
t r y to continue to solve t h e p r o b l e m s it .
h a s itself c r e a t e d right to the b i t t e r end.
And it will do i t s v e r y b e s t to t r y and c r u s h
any opposition from whatever quarter it
c o m e s . Should anyone have any doubts about
the road the prevailing social order is
now taking let m e quote s o m e r e c e n t w o r d s
of t h e n o t e d h i s t o r i a n A r n o l d T o y n b e e . H e
s a y s : "I c a n i m a g i n e t h e w o r l d b e i n g h e l d
together and kept at p e a c e in the y e a r
2000 by an atrociously t y r a n n i c a l d i c -
t a t o r s h i p which would not h e s i t a t e t o kill
or t o r t u r e anyone who, in i t s eyes, was
a m e n a c e to the unquestioning a c c e p t a n c e
of i t s a b s o l u t e a u t h o r i t y . . . If t h e r e l u c t a n t
majority does accept this dictatorship...
I think they would be making the right
choice, b e c a u s e it would e n a b l e the
h u m a n r a c e to s u r v i v e . " (Surviving the
F u t u r e ) . L e t t h e s e w o r d s of A r n o l d
Toynbee s e r v e a s a w a r n i n g about what
t h e f u t u r e h a s i n s t o r e for u s u n l e s s we
now t h r o w e v e r y t h i n g w e ' v e got into the
present struggle.
F r o m a g e n e r a l s t r a t e g i c p o i n t of
view, the new and novel social conditions
of o u r t i m e s s h o w t h a t t h e t i m e h a s n o w
c o m e for A n a r c h i s t s t o walk on to t h e
c e n t r e of t h e s t a g e of h i s t o r y . O u r g e n e r a l
t a s k now i s to p r e p a r e for a n i n t e n s e
p h a s e of s t r u g g l e o n a w o r l d w i d e s c a l e .
How we go about this exactly i s for u s
to d i s c u s s and decide. But the m o s t i m -
portant point i s that we now m a k e up our
m i n d s t o r i d o u r s e l v e s of p e t t y f e a r s
a n d n a r r o w thinking and p r e p a r e for strugg
on a l a r g e scale. Let u s end all childish
r i v a l r i e s ! L e t u s do o u r b e s t t o o p e n
our h e a r t s to each other ! Let u s show
w h a t g o o d stuff A n a r c h i s t s a r e m a d e o f !
L e t u s s h o w t h a t A n a r c h i s t s of t o d a y c a n
w e a r t h e s a m e s i z e s h o e s of t h e g r e a t
A n a r c h i s t s of t h e p a s t — m e n a n d w o m e n
of t h e s t a t u r e of B a k u n i n , K r o p o t k i n , G o l d -
man, Makhno, Berkman, Durruti, and a
g r e a t m a n y o t h e r f e a r l e s s f i g h t e r s for
h u m a n freedom. Let u s follow in the
p r o u d t r a d i t i o n s of t h e s e , o u r A n a r c h i s t
f o r e f a t h e r s ! Let us, a s A n a r c h i s t
f r e e d o m - f i g h t e r s , hold o u r h e a d s up high
a n d w i t h a s o n g of t r i u m p h i n o u r h e a r t s
t h r o w o u r s e l v e s into the g r e a t world
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struggle to liberate ourselves from I will not go into the Prison
"Straw Bosses" here. We all know of
fascism, capitalism, imperialism, and these prisoners that want power over
a l l t h e o t h e r e v i l s of t h e n a t i o n - s t a t e ! other prisoners for their own gain.
Those that turn fish kids into queens
Michael Tobin, and control priogduction of the prison
Box 10638 so that they can profit. (Best clothes
Amsterdam, from the laundry, canteen money from
Holland. their slaves [punks, as these masters
call themj, the best cell and all the
extras.) These prisoners hold rule by
force and fear. Terrorism, race hatred,
etc., are their tools. But these same
UNTITLED POEM — jenny tools are used by the state to promote
wap, fat city tribe. an Inmate Government inside the
We are not ivy plants prisons. (Prison Inmate Councils and
We are not fungus. Ward or Cellblock Governments, In-
It is not necessary to mate goon squads and fink patrols.) In
Feed upon another person's Atascadero it was worse than most
soul. prisons in the fact that ASH was
We are self-maintaining
organisms. always into experimenting withi such
We each are able to stand alone trash. The halls were patrolled by the
We each MUST stand alone. Patient Patrol, the grounds by the
I cannot feed upon the Patient Security Patrol, the wards by
soul of another, that's
Not love, it's addiction. Ward Government and the hospital by
I will not allow the "Emotional Security Program." A
another to feed on my special ward for the young, 12- 16-year
soul. I would die. -olds was goverfied by the Big Brother
We can help each other program. The Big Brothers were all
Why are others insisting
on being parasites? child molesters who were "learning to
We have all got our OWN control themselves" and "helping
wings, to fly away these Little Brothers." The ward and
alone, or together hospital governments were elected un-
As each will choose der strict screening by the staff. On
their own way.
the ward level there was a Greivance
Committee and other committees
where staff or patients could write up
a fellow inmate and put him on trial
and hand down punishment which
was always approved by the staff.
Punishment could be extra work, re-
moval of priviledges, or almost any-
thing. Ward government took care of
work, play, discipline and most of the
work the staff would have to do, which
left the staff with little to do but drink
coffee, write reports, and carry keys.
The thing was kept alive by class
hatred. The criminal patients were
pitted against the sex offenders in
such a way that the governments were
always acting in self-defence or the
"CI" against the "SP". In Vacaville
prison this same style was also used
with sex offender goon squads which
would come with four goons and two
guards (the four to protect, the two to
beat up some "trouble maker" and let
the screw give him a shot of an ECT
treatment, etc.). The Patient Patrols of
Atascadero were of the finest fink
class, they stood in the halls on the
grounds with badges, writing people
up for anything and everything. By the
time I left Atascadero, I refused to
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partake in any government job that
gave me authority over another in-
mate. This whole government game
was a program to convert the prisoners
into good little citizens. (Though today I G
I am an anarchist.)
As long as prisoners who are
victims of this society, buy the hog-
wash that they must reform into a N < C > 0
third class citizen and have nothing in
common with their fellow prisoners,
because they're in for an unpopular
crime or their color is different or the
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sentence is longer or shorter, they will
continue to do the state's work in
keeping their fellow prisoners down.
When prisoners see that they can, and
must, fight the system and do, the
state will have to give way to their
demands. Refuse to work, refuse to
obey and stand by your fellow inmate.
T < > R
A trustee is nothing more than a
scab-fink who takes the place of a
guard in exchange for time off or other
rewards. A good trustee is no more to
be loved than a good guard. A trustee
is nothing more than one who has E N
earned the trust of the keepers. The
only good thing a trustee can do is to
violate that trust by escaping and/or
helping others to do the same, not M
helping the man with a honest head
count or turning keys in the cell doors
for him. Prisoners are prisoners, not
guards. No guard would want to be-
come a prisoner, why would any pris- E
oner want to become a guard? Only to
sell out for favors, prisoners must find
a 100% solidarity—otherwise they will
never find the power to fight the state.
N
While we out here fight the state to
end all prisons, you inside must fight
too. It only serves the state to do the
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state's work. If the state cannot profit
other prisons won't help, they gol the uniiked hut "free" or outside the
from its prisons they will have to
government too. Going to Australia prison walls.
lesson them or in the end close them.
or someplace else for a new start won't S E L F / w m x A / m
If anti-prison minded people would FOURTH CLASS CITIZENS: pri-
help, they got government, too. Only
get on juries they could "hang" them, soners, crazies, etc. When the day
when we do away with government on
and save some brothers and sisters comes, as it will, if we do not do away
all levels will we see a society that will of their lives.In their realis- abolished conscription and the
from the place. If everyone who was with governments, we will find that the
allow everyone to be free—only then. VNHKT IS IT? ation that what is personal is standing army,replacing it with
arrested refused to plea bargain, they fourth class will be in special pro- a citizen militia,one battalion
And to those who are on the streets also political,liberation move-
would flood the court calendar to the grams, bent on making them into Simply expressed, by self ments such as Women's liberation of which,incidentally,burnt the
and think they're safe, let me remind
point where no one could come to trial obedient workers run by the masters. management we mean the ability Gay Liberation,Anti-psychiatry guillotine,to the surrounding
you — " T h i s whole world is just one
in the time allowed if not waived. If we for every individual in society etc represent a fundamental masses great pleasure.The
prison yard, some of us are prisoners I think the world in the end will Central Committee of the
stop thinking of ourselves and start to control his/her own life. break with Left movements of the
and some of us are guards." When one come to one of two states of Anarchy lhrough our own experience, the National Guard proclaimed on
thinking as a whole, we can fight past and an essential part of
is in a lower class because of one (total freedom with no authority— experience of many other people the movement towards a self March 18 that
government from within and without.
reason or another, the ones at the order without law) or totalitarinism and through careful study of managed .society.Self management "the proletarians of Paris,
The real criminals in this society are
lower levels are prisoners because (total government as written in Or- this a/id past societies, we have means a change in people,not amidst the failures and
the police, judges, lawyers of the state, come to the conclusion that the
they're locked out of something that is well's 1984). Remember that none of only in institutions,and it treasons of the ruling
keepers and those who sell out to them fundamental problem of todays classes,have understood tha't
rightfully theirs or they are forced to us are free unless all of us are free— presumes a liberation of all of
to protect their own ass—one would society is that of power and us from the rigid roles into the hour has struck for them
live below the masters. Our status prisoners too. As for revolutionary
think that prisoners would be the most powerlessness. The powerlessness which we all fall. to save the situation,by
governmented society has the follow- groups that claim to free the political of people is what prevents the taking into their own hands
anarchistic of this society, but they are
ing classes: prisoners, these would only restock the full expression of the potential the direction of public
not. They make rules—"I can't talk to Once again,the point must be
you because the other whites would prisons with their own class prisoners. for human development which we made that we are not just naive affairs ... it is their
FIRST CLASS CITIZEN: the ruling These would not just be the 1% all possess. Utopians,who think that people imperious destiny and their
not like it." " Y o u ' r e so-an-so's old absolute right to render
class with its leaders, moneymen. masters we have not, that will all be will one day simply decide to
lady, he wouldn't like it if he saw us themselves masters of their
judges, and police [hurt one of these dead in 20-30 years anyway, but any- The question of power shows behave in a radically different
talking together." (Possessive and very own destinies, by seizing
and you 11 get 10 to life at best. ] one who does not fit the revolutionary itself in many ways. The most way to that in which they are
un-anarchistic.) People should be free fundamentalpower relationship upon the governmental power"
scheme. The children of the Russian used to.The change that is (The Commune Solidarity
to do as they wish, don't you want SECOND CLASS CITIZEN: the in society is that between the required can only develop
freedom too? "You're going to be my ruling class were shot along with their Pamphlet No 35)
working class, some of whom think boss and the worker.Where we through protracted struggle,
punk or HI kill." (Slavery, very un- parents. Does Patty advocate the rul- work is where we spend much of
they can get to be first class. [You'll autonomous activity which we,
anarchistic.) The state has made a ing class that her father is a part of? our lives. It is where we Accordingly,all elected repre-
get lesser time generally for hurting as workers,must initiate our
slave of you, does it give you status to To sum this up: Prisons are a form of produce the wealth of the selves with others.Self manage- sentatives were subject to recall
one of these unless the ruling class
be the owner of another? If so, you're government—we will never do away society from where we gain the ment cannot, by definition,be at any stage and had a limited
wants to appear like it's sen'ing all, means with which to satisfy the
as bad as the pig that makes you clean with prisons or mind control and have instigated from above. term of office. The Paris
then an example will be made, j very many needs of human beings. workers recognised over a
his laundry. There are many more total freedom until we do away with
governments, totally and forever. . . . SelF management means the total century ago the essential
examples I could sight. Let's face THIRD CLASS CITIZEN: ex-prison- abolition of the order-giver/
Red Warthan content of a socialist society
it—you can't run from it. Transfer to ers who have little or no rights, ex- order-taker situation. It BASIS IN HISTORY - control from below.
crazies, the poor, the un-pooular and involves the refusal by workers
to submit to the domination of Our belief that self management Almost 50 years later, in the
MALE SEXUAL LIBERATION - red warthan wap - fat city tribe even those who claim to be acting can become a reality lies also Russian revolution,the validity
on their behalf (or "in the best in what has happened in the of the Communards demands was
Wile much voice has come to the call of so called female liberation,few have though male lib interests of the working class") past.In so many of the revolu- once more illustrated. However,
little more than a joke. This is due to the fact that the world is run by males,though many tions in history,women and men this time it wasn't the
have sought to achieve similar
males run the few. It is the male child that is born with "an oblation to serve his counrty". Most importantly, self management goals to ours.The revolution of bourgoisie which defeated the
It is the male child that has his body cut on shortly after birth to insure his "health" and •neans a change in people.At Paris,1871,usually known as the workers - it was a group of
present most people often submit Paris commune,is correctly people who claimed to represent
the doctors fee and Moses' law. It the male that is sentence to death by the State at the rate to their domination, in fact the working class which created
of 125 to 1 in California. It is the male most offten that looses the children in devorce. celebrated by socialists all
they often aid it. However this over the world as one of the a new type of ruling class
is a fact we embrace as a first,if not the first,revolt
No dought if these facts were brought to the High Courts of the land(America in this case) starting point, not as an end. which showed the way towards
If this was not the case, then Many of the features of revol-
they would say that the sexs should be equal and hence women should be drafted and murdered the future.How many people utionary activity in 1917 were
by the State in equal numbers with men.A word to the wise sister seeking liberty;"Seek not we would not be revolutionaries, know of the amazingly democratic
and you would not be reading accontinuation of the egalitar-
your liberty at the hands of governments" None of us are free unless all of us are free.Equal "government" without any prior ian tradition of the Paris
this. But we state that this is planning,of the way in which
slavery is equal but not free.Look at Russia where women are equal in the government and serve not an inherent characteristic commune._he organs of power
the day to day affairs of the which arose independently of
in the armed forces,on the courts and in the Central Commettee. Election of 'yOP/o women into the of some philosophical "human Parisienne people,the transport
nature", and that people are the Bolshevik Party were the
government will not change things for the better,cause governments only make things worse.Only of goods,working of the Workers and Soldiers Soviets
capable of co-operating together, factories etc were organised
in a unblimished anarchy will we find sexual equality. To bring about this state we must start in a rational way, in order to and these bodies gradually
co-operatively,non-hierarchically became the effective power
to shange our heads now.To do this sisters must give up seeking their rights through the Law make this society one which and sensibly?The ordinary people
and men must give up their sexual hang-ups.Examples of these are:"You aint a man if you aint encourages meaningful human of Paris took the first steps holders in Russia. In the name
relationships. You can't have a towards running their own lives of these Soviets,Lenin's
been phuced by the time your 13 years old" "Only queer men kiss"(sometimes said about women fulfilling relationdhip with Bolsheviks seizei power and
too)Taking a old female friend to coffee is a sound reason for her husband to think your out without being directed by any
someone who gives you orders, selfstyled revolutionary leader their successors in the
balling. Men must stop owning women and seeing other men as foes.The list goes on and on,but nor when you are enslaved to a ship. Communist Party continue to
once we get it together we will have a new freedomfwe will not have to fear loosing something machine, be it a drill or a control the U.S.S.R and many
typewriter, nor when all your other countries today.Simultane-.
because we will not declair to own it,be it a woman or land. We will do away with husbands
ously,there also developed
and armies,with prisons and courts. ideas,feelings,creativity,hopes The Paris commune decided a factory committees in Russia,
and fears have arisen from a maximum wage for all members based on the workplace and demo-
We seek not the replacement of the "maoho"society with a new "macha" one but a society where society which systematically and employees of 6000 francs.It cratically elected.Whereas the
man,women,gays,hetro,a-sexuals,transexuals and everyone is free and truly equal. - - - - - - - dominates people, for the whole Bolsheviks controlled the
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Soviets and used these for their
own purposes,in order to increase
their own power and influence,
the Factory Committees were
autonomous bodies,composed of
workers and beginning to
federate nationally in 1917.
Lenin and Trotsky,the principal
Bolshevik leaders paid these
possible future organs of
socialist democracy only lip
serviceand once they gained
power,systematically sought to
destroy their influence by in
corporating their tasks and
oower within the trade unions,
which of course the Bolsheviks
controlled.The same was done
with the Soviets as the power
of the Party grew.
Let us not be hesitant about
this. In contrast to almost all
other groups in the Left, we
state quite plainly that Lenin
acted in a counter-revolutionary
way; he sought to concentrate
power in the hands of the Party
apparatus,strangling truly
autonomous workers movements
before they could flower.One
particular example is that of
the Nobel Oil Refinery in
Petersburg. The bosses having
fled after the seizure of power,
the 4000 workers organised them
salves into mobile groups,and
tried to find fuel,raw materials
outlets and means of transport.
They appealed to the Bolshevik
government,only to be told that
they must come under the orders
of the government.After some
struggle,the factory was closed.
Lenin's (and Trotsky's!) writings
on "workers control" on one-man
management of factories,on "
"labour discipline" etc make it
clear that they and nearly all
the Bolshevik leaders saw the
proletarian or workers nature of
the government as "hinging on
the proletarian nature of the
Party" that had taken state
power. None of them saw the
proletarian nature of the
Russian regime as primarily,and
crucially dependent upon the
exercise of workers power at
the point of production (ie on
workers management of
production)
(The Bolsheviks and Workers
Control - A solidarity Book p42)
It becomes exhausting and dis-
heartening to go through all the
other actions the Bolsheviks
took to prevent the survival of
opposition,both within Russia
and in the International.The
brutal suppression of the
revolutionary Kronstadt sailors
in 1921,the treachery and dis-
honesty of Trotsky in dealing
with the Ukrainian peasant
armies,the banning of strikes
such as those in Petersburg in
support of the Kronstadt demands
for freedom from Party tyranny,
the outlawing of the inter-party
Workers Opposition - all these
are aspects of the inevitable
result of allowing anyone to
rule in your own name.It is
important to realize that the
lies, slanders,shootings,purges
etc all began before Stalin came
to power. Naturally we recognise
that the backwardness of the
economy,the Civil war,the Imper-
ialist invasion,the economic
blockade and the failure of the
German revolution all helped in
the growth of the bureacracy and
the degeneration of the Bolshev-
iks. But these don't change the
facts we have stated about
workers management being the
only real possibility of pre-
venting a new ruling class from
assuming power.
Since 1921,when all effective
opposition was silenced within
Russia,there have been several
instances of hope,where revolu-
tions have placed power where
it belongs - in the hands of
the ordinary people.The Spanish
anarchists stressed this fact
and showed how it can be done.
They were defeated due,at least
partly,to the treachery of the
Russians,who withheld raw
materiaIs,arms and support,and
also due to the actions of some
of their own leaders,who joined
a bourgois republican government,
thinking that the fascist Franco
had to be defeated before the
revolution spread to the rest of
Spain.However,agricultural co-
operatives were set up, in which
a general assembly of working
peasants in each village elected
a management committee respons-
ible for economic administration.
Apart from the secretary,all
members continued their manual
labour.Artisans,hairdressers,
shoemakers etc grouped them
selves in collectives. Rent,
electricity,medical care,old
age assistance,pharmaceutical,
education etc were free. The
relationships between people in
anarchist areas underwent a
remarkable change.In Catalonia,
factory workers continued to
operate the factories after the
bosses fled and many technicians
helped.They elected a managerial
committee,who elected a manager
with varying powers.There was
central management to some
extent,and attempts were made,
largely sabotaged by the comm-
unists,to plan the economy.
Although full self management
was never a reality,there were
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many very promising artempts at
a libertarian organisation of
the economy.
More recently in the so-called
"communisfcountries of east
Europe,Workers Councils have
again sprung up in periods of
revolutionar>' upsurge. In March
1953,Stalin died,and in June
the East German and Czechoslo-
vakian workers rebelled.Russian
tanks smashed them.Tn June 1956
Polish workers elected factory
committees and presented deman
cmands going beyond pay increa
increases, questioning the way
the work was organised and
demanding changes.When they
(naturally) received little
meaningful response,they went
on strike and after a fierce
two day battle, were smashed
by Polish tanks.
Throughout the early months
of 1956 political agitation
against the government in
Hungary gradually became more
and more open. As intellectuals
grew in courage and strength,
their criticisms became less
veiled and more blatant.In
September and early October,the
Hungarian workers joined in,
demanding "genuine workers self
government" in factories.Natur-
ally, the Trade Union Council
tried to moderate these demands,
but the workers began to demand
to be allowed to manage their
own factories without interfer-
ence from above.On October 23
a huge demonstration was fired
upon by the Hungarian secret
police and the hours that foil
followed were the beginning of
revolution
Russian tanks were called in by
the "Communist"government to
smash the workers and students
who were occupying the main
centres.Amazingly,they were
defeated by the Hungarian people
who distributed arms amongst
themselves,fraternised with some
Russian soldiers and dropped
crude Molotov cocktails on others
others in their tanks.But a week
later,the Russians were back,
reinforced with East German tank
crews who didn't realize they
were facing a Hungarian revolution
tion.Even so,many soldiers on both
both sides fraternised when they
realised that the Party and the
Bureacracy was their common enemy
enemy.It took two weeks to defeat
defeat the Hungarian workers and
students,but in the mean time a
great deal had been achieved.
Throughout the turmoil,Workers
Councils were elected all over
the country,delegates being
immediatelv revokable and
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comprised only of actual workers.
These Councils federated
nationally,co-ordinating and
controlling the essential
services of the country and
providing an important communica-
tions link.In fact,the workers
ran the economy themselves .without
bosses and without hierarchies.
The importance of this spontane-
ous movement is expressed by
Andy Anderson in Hungary '56.
"In 1956 the Hungarian working
class inscribed on its banner
the demand for workers manage-
ment of production. It insist
ed that Workers Councils
should play a dominant role in
all roles of social life ...
on the land"
(pagel)
Another point must be made.Not
only were revolutionary workers
opposed to their own bosses.They
refused to swap one lot of
bosses for another by advocating
a capitalist society such as we
know here in Australia. The
press that you read in this
country may cover sucli events
with glee,pleased to be shown
as being correct about the
totalitarian regimes known as
"Conmunist".They won't make it
clear that the Hungarian and
Yugoslav and Polish and East
German and Czechoslovakian
workers and students hve no less
a criticism of Australian
society than of their own.
Lastly,mention must be made of
France 1968 (and Czechoslovakia
1968,and Italy 1969-73 etc etc)
The 1968 May June uprising in
France was a most important
stage in the struggle against
those who held power in modem
society,and it deserves further
discussion than that offered
here.However,we can suggest its
significance by indicating how
it raises totally new questions
and solutions.
In modern capitalist society,
most people have enough to eat,
a job, a home and many items
that were once considered
luxuries.(certainly not all
people do, and its not. only
aborigines who lack basic
necessities such as food,but
that is not the point, because
most people in Australia are
not in that position)"The
motive forces of revolution
today,at least in the indust-
rialised world are not simply
scarcity and material need,but
also the quality of everyday
life, the demand for the liber-
ation of experience,the attempt
to gain control over one's own
destiny"
(Bookchin pp 249-50)
The general strike of May 1968
cut across all traditional
class lines.It involved not only
students and workers,but tech-
nicians and clerical people.It
swept in professionals and
labourers,intellectauls and
football players TV broadcasters
and subway workers, doctors and
cleaners.lt involved neighbour-
hood action committees, which
controlled suburbs and distrib
uted supplies, it involved
workers councils in almost every
walk of life, and one thing was
in conrnon; no longer were people
prepared to accept the society
as it was, no longer would they
put up with not having control
over their own lives.
For a brief moment in May, all
the social roles and barriers
between people were broken down
and people began to discuss in
groups and streetcorners topics
thay had never bothered to
discuss before, with people
thay had never really spoken to
before. People gained a taste
of what life could be like with
out domination;the streets were
a carnival of joy. Unfortunately
the traditional left hadn't
changed. All the shit about
"vanguard parties" and "prolet-
arian leadership"was there,and
the conservative nature of the
Trade unions and the Communist
Parties was laid barer than
ever.
Now the lessons we can learn
from History are many and
varied. But we must not make a
fetish of WorkersCouncils,for
example,as they will be the
only institutions through which
self management will be achieved
expressed in the economic form.
New forms of organisation will
evolve through struggle, and
unless there is a cliange in
social relations, Workers
Councils will degenerate as they
did in Russia,
"One car, offer no guarantee
that a revolution will not
degenerate. There are no re-
cipes for maintaining a high
level of activity amongst
people. But history has shown
that certain factors do lead.
...to a retreat by people
from political activity.
These factors are the emerg-
ence and consolidation of
individuals or groups who
'take charge' of society's
common affairs."
(The Meaning of Socialism
P 14)
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Today, more and more people are
experimenting with different
types of institutions, in att-
empts to create non-hierarchial
creative and flexible structures
that encourage autonomous action
by all members of the groups.The
attempt to place the power and
decision making in the hands of
even the lowliest workers can be
seen in such developments as edit-
orial collectives, rank and file
action groups, struggles against
union bureaucracy, struggles
against assessment and discipline
in schools and universities etc.
We propose a form of organisation,
the workers councils, as the
basis for a non-hierarchial soc-
iety, organised roughly along the
following lines.
A society based on workers
councils in every workplace, whe-
ther that be factory plant, build-
ing site,mine,railway yard,office,
educational institution, or what-
ever, workers would elect a coun-
cil of delegates who could be re-
called at any time and replaced,
by a mass meeting, who could not
remain in office for more than a
particular fixed term, and who
would be empowered to represent
the wishes of those workers who
elected him/her. This council
would run the daily affairs of
the factory, office etc., refer-
ring all important decisions back
to a general assembly of workers.
A Central Assembly of delegates
would also be elected by the
general assemblies, based on work
places, which could tackle the
problems involved in management of
the economy as a whole:the co-
ordination of transport,supply
of raw materials,decentralisa-
tion of the economy,planning for
the future,national campaigns
on pollution,the problem of
economic growth etc.Like the
Workers Councils,these people
would remain at work,meeting
regularly and reporting to the
other working people as often
as needed.
Workers Councils would be the
basis of the economic structure
of a self managed society.Yet
they would also play a signif-
icant part in all aspects of
social life.The integration of
work into people's daily lives
would be part of the transfor-
mation of society.No longer
would labour be equal to drudg-
ery, as what work was left after
the introduction of advanced
automation and cybernetics was
revitalised through job rotation
retraining and elimination of
the increasingly specialised
division of labour.Together with
fhe phasing out of jobs such as

idvertising,much of the public
service, stock brokerages etc
which serve only the capitalist
society,this would mean that
people could gain control over
their work situations instead
of being dominated by the need
to produce wealth for bosses.
Labour would be a means for
satisfaction of the needs of
the people, not a means to make
profits or a type of social
domination.
Such a radical change in work
would necessarily be accompanied
by great changes in lifestyle.
No-one can give a blueprint of
the future, but some of the
possibilities can be suggested.
For example alternatives to
the nuclear family could be
explored, and ways of encouraging
c r i t i c a l attitudes, self security
and co-operation attempted.
Politics would lose i t s mystical
and farcical character and become
the rational discussion of the
co-operative management of
society.This would be accompanied
by a total transformation of mass
communications in order to simp-
lify so much that is complex
in modern society.clarify that
which is mystifying and ensure
equal access to information for
a l l . With the free participation
of people in the political l i f e
of the society, and their real-
isation that they have some
control over the decisions made
and also the possibilities prop-
osed, politics would become
integrated as an aspect of the
daily lives of everyone. The
Council might also take over
the running of the tasks of the
judiciary,the problems of educa-
tion and the creation of better
opportunities to creatively use
one's leisure time.Neighbourhood
committees would probably also
play an important role.
But Workers Councils alone cannot
guarantee that an e l i t e will not
develop and take power.
"The population can only
exercise power i7~it wants
to. The organisation proposed
would ensure that the popula
tion could exercise such power
if it wanted to"
(Worker Councils p 50)
Because i t perpetuates inequal
ities in power and satisfaction
of needs, and because i t has been
at the forefront of revolutionary
Markers dewnds, an equal wage
for every job is an essential part
of a self-managed society.Equal
wages and equal power are closely
dependent on each other.Those
reactionaries who exclaim in
horror that those with particular
skills should be rewarded for
their greater production would
do well to remember that not
everyone in a society has a
chance to gain specialised qual-
ifications and ski lis.To the
arguments of professional people
such is doctors,lawyers and
engineers, that they deserve a
reward for their years of long
and arduous study, we reply that
education should be a process of
creative and enjoyable learning,
not a dreary period of endless
fact-memorising and mindless
acceptance of so-called
"knowledge" that very often has
l i t t l e to do with one's l i f e .
This would be the case in a self
managed society and students
would also receive a living wage
eliminating the common financial
hardship present today.
S E X I W L T Y &
S E L F / M M G E / M E N r
The demand for equal power and
equal wages expresses quite
simply the essential nature of
what we are struggling for.
One crucial aspect of present
society is sexuality.Capitalism
represses free healthy sexual
activity as part of its general
process of suppressing the
realisation of himan potential.
The distortion of equal human
relationships through the impos-
ition of sexual roles is an
important aspect of the perpet-
uation of an oppressive social
existence.The imposition of both
masculine and feminine roles in
childhood is a stifling of both
men's and women's ability to
treat each other as human beings
rather than as objects as means
to various ends. Both men and
women are oppressed and a move
ment for human liberation must
take this into account.The
liberation of one sex without
the other is a non-liberation,
and a selfmanaged society must
develop waysof caring for kids
which do not perpetuate the
• hierarchies of adult/child
tyranny and which allow the
creation of a child who is
neither aggressively dominant
nor passively submissive, but
who is self-reliant (yet still
capable of close human relation-
ships) and refuses to accept a
situation of powerlessness.
Homosexuals are another aspect.
They pose a threat to the
"normal" sexual roles we are
forced into, they act as scape
goats for the frustrations of
others and challenge the ideol-
ogy of the peculiarity of the
family as the basic unit of
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T Similarly, we don't support
society.A society in which
homosexuals remain powerless and
oppressed has not challenged our
concepts of human living. The
liberation of dykes and poofters
(the names lose their derogatory
connotations when we throw them
in the faces of our oppressors)
cannot be separated from human
liberation throughout the rest
of the society.
Whilst both men and women are
oppressed, it is men, and male
controlled institutions which
oppress women in particular.Thus
a demand for equal wages and
equa] power has an even greater
significance for women.Women have
even less power overtheir lives
than men,expressed most import-
antly in the institution of
marriage.Marriage places women
in a position of dependence on
men , forcing them to define
themselves in terms of their role
as adjuncts to men and as bearers
and raisers of children.House
work is an excellent example of
work in a position of powerless
ncss.Women's Liberation can only
come about when women refuse to
be dominated by men, when they
organise together to counteract
a sexist society and break out
of their position of powerless-
ness at the same time freeing
themselves from their own self
oppression.lt is not. a question
of a 'class analysis" being
primary as various Marxist sects
will scream, nor of women's
liberation being the basis of
all liberation.Self management
means equality of power for women
as well as men, just as human
liberation means the liberation
of both men and women together.
The two cannot be separated.
Where does this leave us in
relation to existing political
institutions?
Parliamentary politics is a
cover for the real situation of
power in the society,which has
its basis at the point of
production.For most people,
politics is not seen as relevent
to their daily lives. They are
not interested,and its hardly
surprising,considering the amount
of influence they have.Accord-
ingly, we do not stand candidates
for any elections,nor so we
suggest voting for anybody
(including labor - the ALP can
never become a revolutionary
body and it's no use saying we
should force it to adopt social-
ist policies).If you must vote,
express your contempt for all
politicians and parliament with
the appropriate conment: who
ever you vote for, a politician
always gets in!
Trade unions. Throughout history
Trade Unions have demonstrated
their inadequacy as revolution-
ary bodies and in modern cap-
italist society they show their
conservative nature quite
blatantly.In almost all revolu-
tionary situations,Trade Unions
play a reactionary role.It is
not just a question of policies;
if that were so then perhaps
Unions could act in a more
revolutionary way.It is a
question of whether or not they
encourage workers to organize
at rank and file level,to create
non-hierarchical and autonomous
organs of power composed of
workers,not ex-workers.It is a
question of whether or not they
promote the self-activity and
political awareness of their
members.lt is a question also
of what type of society they
benefit most from,a capitalist
society,into which they are well
integrated and secure,or a self
managed society,where they would
be useless.Already,workers in
Australia and elsewhere are
rejecting them,as they refuse
to be manipulated,sold-out and
pissed off by arogant Trade
Union bureaucrats who are out
for their own personal gain,not
for the revolution.
Russia,China and their satellites
represent for us more an example
of how not to build a socialist
society than a model to be
admired.They are all class
soc ie t i es,not ' 'degenera ted
workers states"(Trotskyists)not
"Socialist based countries"
(Stalinists) but totalitarian
state capitalist societies
controlled by a ruling class,
and we abhor them as much as
we attack our own exploitative
and oppressive society.While
the P.R.G. represents a vast
and significant improvement
over the U.S and its puppets in
Saigon, we believe it will
still tend to create a new
ruling class once it gains
power,unless it develops a
society where power resides in
the hands of the peasants and
workers of South Vietnam.We do
not see it as likely that the
P.R.G. will work towards its
own eradication.
It should be obvious by now that
we are opposed to all self
styled (or otherwise) "vanguard
parties".We believe that the
oppressive social relations
compel workers continually to
struggle against the bosses
and that "working class consc-
iousness can only develop
through this struggle - it can
not be inserted into .the working
class from outside as Lenin
thought necessary.What does need
to be done is to help formulate
this and make it explicit. What
raises peoples consciousness is
revolutionary action initiated
by workers and directed at
changing the power relationships
of this society. A national net
work of Workers Councils has to
be built throughout Australia,
and when that happens, the Self
Management Group,unlike Marxist/
Leninist parties,will disband,
its task fulfilled.We do not
seek to become the new rulers
of a socialist society,but we
do seek to become members of a
self managed society.
Neither do we see ourselves as
possessors of an absolute Truth,
of the destiny of History,of
objective knowledge or any such
bullshit. Accordingly,we invite
constructive revolutionary
criticism,but not sectarian
phrase-mongering,or ideological
diatribes.If you would like to
know more about our ideas and
actions,contact us at any of
the addresses below.
SELF MANAGEMENT GROUP
FOR A SOCIETY BASED ON WORKERS
COUNCILS.
P.O. Box 67
North Adelaide 5006
P.O. Box 332
North Quay Brisbane 4001
or
The Red and Black Bookshop
Elizabeth Arcade
Brisbane
;the following pamphlets are
available from the above
addresses:
Tho '-IpanifiM of iflc. ..HI I
rcassei tion of the "al content
jf socialism .tgain>c the
mystification of trie torxist-
Leninist and cold twr ideologies
•todern Capital ism and Revolution
(P Cardan) A fundamental critique
of the traditional left.The real
political questions today -
bureacratisation,ana thy,general
alienation.
The Crisis of Mpd*rn Society
[V CardaaJTfe Interlocking crisis
in work .polities, values,i
tion,the faulty tad r o l t t i t
between th* sexes.
From Bolshevist to trn* fcar—cracy
(P Cardan) The role of lolshevik
ideology in destroying the
Russian revolution.
The Kronstadt Co—unc (Ida Mett)
The final defeat of organised
communist politics in Russia
Working Class Consciousness
Ts there an implicit struggle
in production against th* noraa
of capitalism?
totalitarimniui froa witala tat
Bolshevik Perty.
Kronstadt,1921(Victor Serge)
A Bolshevik looks at Kronstadt
and draws disturbing conclusions.
Black Seperatism, White S>xophancy
About racist "anti racists'' and
their supporters.
Race Power and Oppression.Black/
White Attitudes In Australia
Are blacks and whites inherently
different or is racisa rooted
elsewhere?
Th* Irrational In Politics
Subservience is a s»tt*r of
belief, not of brainwash.lag,
Strategy for Industrial Struggle
How to build autonomous struggle
How not to let initiative fall
into the hands of the bosses
and burcacrats.
French Revolution 196B A large
struggle around the idea of
workers power.
Hungary 56 Russian imperialism
against a communist revolution.
Economics of Self management
Economics as a social question
The Bolsheviks and Workers
Control m%\m W Union)
Where was the real communist
struggle in Russia?
Socially responsible Scientists
or Soldier ;Technicians
spoil Science
andTfcrality
lecT
Paris,1981 The need for autono-
mous Workers Councils.
Workers Councils The Economics
of a SeU Managed~~SocietyThe
management of the economy as
based on Workers Councils
and their relations to other
social questions.
TVs AND NEWSPAPERS
Woodstock anarchist party, •fat city tribe"
u.s.a.
I don't want to go.
Because she's got a TV eye on me.
She shows us kids
shows and armed robberies.
Don't blame her.
Life is cartoons,
singing loony tune
in stereophonic beat.
Let her show us for real womanhood.
Woman that is half ally
and half strange beauty show.
With a fist in a clinch
am I deranged?
Ha you don't even know
my sanity.
My eyes have seen the glory,
of space things.
Rockets red glare,
bombs bursting in air.
I hear the government's
into TV
Programed on street corners.
Shooting moving pictures
of you and me.
Pigs on the other end,
Watching the activity.
Kids pulling armed robberies.
Don't like this?
You can always go home,
and watch TV.
Take your pick;
FBI reruns and
Alice Cooper getting guillotined.
News Flash!
Anarchists getting garroted.
Shut it off, please,
or show me the closet door.
So I can go and scream.
Stop killing us.
History in the making.
It's a bunch of bunk.
We don't want it,
you can have It,
It's not my American dream.
If you want TV it's okay.
I'll show you Kung-Fu,
flashing back on acid.
Beep Beep the roadrunner,
moving at a creep.
Watch out for sniper humans.
Superman doing an Ex-Lax commercial
on a toilet seat.
I'm a Monopoly city ghetto.
People throwing kryptonite
cause the fucking honkies
ass stinks.
Or light a match,
and we can burn
the ghetto down.
And let the joker
make a joke about it.
How about Bozo the clown
being liberated
from his straight jacket,
without a lobotomy,
amusement free,
prolixin freed?
I want to scream freak.
KiU your TV.
Have it commit suicide
with mental bullets.
Have it lose itself and
find reality.
Get it high on LSD
Make it like
you and me.
Anarchy.
Free.
Should we talk about
Newspapers?
lester tate "MY LAWYER"
by Donald Packard
wap prisoner
Pittsburgh, Penna.
When grappled in the law's embrace
Who first betrayed an anxious face,
And swore he'd shield me from disgrace?
My Lawyer!
Who told me I should not confess,
That all my wrongs he would redress,
And set me free from all distress?
My Lawyer!
While sick in jail, I senseless lay,
Who took my watch and ring away,
Lest prowling thieves on me should prey?
My lawyer!
Who to my wealth stubbornly clung,
For me wagged an oily tongue,
And at my foes hot embers flung?
My Lawyer!
Who alone with peerless pride,
My rights affirmed, my guilt denied,
And swore the state's attorney lied?
My Lawyer!
When twelve men in one compound,
For me a guilty verdict found,
Who came to staunch my bleeding wound?
My Lawyer!
Who said my time within the wall,
Would be exceedingly brief and small,
The minimum or none at all?
My Lawyer!
When the judge my doom proclaimed
And six years of exile named,
Who looked indignant and ashamed?
My Lawyer!
When at the sheriff's stern command,
I for the chain was told to stand,
Who longest shook and squeezed my hand?
My Lawyer!
Who closed the mortgage on my lot,
Drove my family from their cot,
And left them homeless on the spot?
My lawyer!
Who, when of prison clothes I'm stripped,
And from these walls I'm homeward shipped,
Will get himself immediately whipped?
My Lawyer.
It's degrading to be thrown in with common politi-
2 0 cians.
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