For a Libertarian Communism by David Berry; Mitchell Abidor

Author:David Berry; Mitchell Abidor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2017-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1.La Révolution Inconnue, 1917–1921 (1969 edn.), p. 19. In The Ego and Its Own (1845), Max Stirner had already announced as the “principle of Revolution” this pessimistic axiom: “Always there is only a new master set in the old one’s place, and the overturning is a—building up…. Since the master rises again as state, the servant appears again as subject.” [English translation by Steven T. Byington (1907)—DB].

2.In De la capacité politique des classes ouvrières (Marcel Rivière edn., 1924), p. 200.

3.Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881), although from a bourgeois background, was a hugely influential revolutionary socialist republican and was involved in various attempted insurrections from an early age. ‘Blanquism’ is characterised by a lack of faith in working-class movements and by the belief that bourgeois society could only be destroyed by a violent coup effected by a small group of revolutionaries who would then introduce a new and more just social order. [DB]

4.Proudhon in De la capacité, pp. 88 & 119.

5.Cf. Karl Marx, L’alliance de la démocratie socialiste et l’association internationale des travailleurs. Rapport et documents publiés par ordre du congrès international de La Haye (London: A. Darson; Hamburg: O. Meissner, 1873).

6.See his Terrorism and Communism (1920).

7.An early socialist who met Marx and Engels in the 1840s, Hess (1812–1875) envisaged the realisation of the ideals of freedom and equality through the achievement of communism. [DB]

8.A contradictory figure in early German socialism, Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864) was a republican and democrat, and insisted on the necessary role of the state in socialism. [DB]

9.In Engels’ 1891 preface to the first French edition of Marx, La Guerre civile en France (Bibliothèque d’études socialistes, 1901).

10.Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) is, among other things, an apologia for despotism.

11.See The Ego and Its Own.

12.Speech to the 1868 Bern congress of the Ligue de la paix et de la liberté, in Mémoire de la Fédération jurassienne (Sonvillier, 1873), p. 28.

13.Oscar Testut, L’Internationale (1871), p. 154.

14.Marx in The Civil War in France.

15.See the end of ch. 6 in Plekhanov, Anarchisme et Socialisme, force et violence (Librairie de l’Humanité, 1923), as well as the preface by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.

16.Voline, op. cit., pp. 218 and 229.

17.The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) was a prominent member of the left intelligentsia in the postwar years. Influenced by Marx, he was a member of the editorial committee of Sartre’s review Les Temps modernes (until the two fell out in 1952); he also played a leading role in the Union des Forces Démocratiques created in 1958 by various elements of the non-communist left to oppose General Charles de Gaulle’s attempt to become president of a reformed Republic. [DB]

18.Kropotkin, L’Anarchie, sa philosophie, son idéal (Stock, 1896), p. 51.

19.Cf. the 1904 text by Rosa Luxemburg reproduced as an appendix to the French translation of Trotsky, Nos tâches politiques (Belfond, 1970 [1904]). [This is a reference to Luxemburg’s ‘Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy’, available on the Marxists Internet Archive at https://www.Marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/questions-rsd/index. htm; Guérin, with the anarchist artist Jean-Jacques Lebel, was the editor of the series in which Trotsky’s Our Political Tasks, a critique of Lenin and Leninism, was published.

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