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On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Lüko Willms lueko.wil...@t-online.de wrote:
I have long believed that Stalinism (particularly in its
post-Khruschevian form) was some particular version of
Social-Democracy, a Social-Democracy without a bourgeoisie to do the
dirty task.
They are both a petty-bourgeois current exploiting the working-class
movement, but the social basis is different.
The social basis of social-democracy is intimately tied in with their own
bourgeoisie in that respective country, finding its primary social support in
the trade-union burocracy and the municipal burocracy (this latter is the
case at least in Germany).
The other current, which we know as stalinism, is -- as you say -- not so
intimately linked with its national bourgeoisie, and can act more
independently of that.
Consider the left turn in the late 1940ies of stalinist parties worldwide
after the Kreml finally realised that the US empire was not good friend. It
is
in that period, that stalinists in Colombia started an armed struggle, that
the
revolutionists in China and Vietnam were encouraged to go on the offensive,
and that time, when in Eastern Europe the burocratically deformed revolutions
ended the direct capitalist rule in a number of countries.
But this is quite original, for me! Why would you say that Stalinism
roots in Bakunin?
It is this program of a barracks communism (Kasernenhofkommunismus),
as Marx called it in its critique of the Bakuninist split of the first
International,
the gangsterism of a petty bourgeois layer detached from a real unity with
the working classes, the strong-arm tactics against political opponents and
the mistrust against the working class as such which has to be commanded
but not led, all this is first found in Bakunin and his followers, and could
develop to a larger extent only after the foundations of a workers state
brought about by the Russian Revolution provided such a layer a power base,
on which same-minded groups in other countries could rely on.
The horror of the Pol-Pot-Regime is another manifestation of that.
Also think of the burning tires as neck laces to discipline Black
workers
by a stalinist wing of the ANC.
This insight came me after reading Martín Koppel's pamphlet Peru's
Shining Path - Anatomy of a reactionary sect, published in 1993 by
Pathfinder Press (Spanish as Sendero Luminoso - Evolución de una secta
estalinista in 1994 http://www.pathfinderpress.com/s.nl/it.A/id.599/.f).
This Bakuninism is quite different from what we know as Anarchism today,
in which individualism plays a central role, and where groups end up by all of
them hanging out shingle or starting a business on their own.
Saludos revolucionarios desde el viejo continente,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
This has to be one of the most asinine things I have read on marxmail.
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