In these three texts, two way street Victor Serge politically justify its shift away from libertari

It's always nice (and useful) to cross the road to Victor Serge. I must say that this son of Russian immigrant born in Brussels was a extraordinary destiny. Victor Serge, aka Kibaltchitche, aka Rétif, figure of individualist anarchism, attended the illegalist medium, was imprisoned and then exiled before winning revolutionary Russia and convert Leninism, but not Stalinism, two way street which earned him few years of relegation in the Urals, then deportation to France before the Second World War led him to cross the Atlantic and settle in Mexico, where it will turn off in November 1947. Phew!
Militant revolutionary, talented writer Victor Serge wrote in nearly 60 years an imposing mass of historical books, novels and articles, some of which are passed on to posterity 1
Editions Acratie chose to exhume three texts published in 1937-1938 (Meditations on Anarchism and Anarchist two way street thought) and 1947 (Political Testament) she chose to gather under the title Reflections on anarchism 2.
In these three texts, two way street Victor Serge politically justify its shift away from libertarian thought, but also the need to find a synthesis between social anarchism which puts people at the heart of its project and sometimes gets lost in romance, and a more scientific and practical revolutionary Marxism, but too often cynical and amoral 3.
Melancholy, he returned to his Meditations on anarcho-individualist commitment, his refusal to compromise with the old world, a sine qua non for oneself: but already "the romanticism of anarchy two way street (...) opposed the effectiveness two way street of Marxism. "In The anarchist thought, Serge tip limits the individualistic thinking and deeply regrets the way the Bolsheviks treated the Ukrainian anarchist movement (Makhnovist), referring indefinitely a possible agreement between the two revolutionary currents. In his Testament, finally, due to historical circumstances the evolution of Soviet Russia, besieged citadel became a police state in 1927-1928, noting that "centralization, discipline, two way street ideology can now ruled that inspire us jute mistrust, we need some serious of organizations. "
He places the degeneration of the Russian Revolution in 1927-1928 when Stalin good liquid boatswain a fragmented opposition with the "Trotskyists" are the most advanced technology. And therein lies the rub for libertarians (and others) who believe that the repression of revolutionary opposition, the liquidation of the soviets, the stranglehold of the party on the revolutionary two way street process itself and its bureaucracy involved from the first time and are just as much a response to circumstances that application of Leninism that Rosa Luxemburg, yet little suspicious sympathy for the libertarian, two way street was not slow to condemn.
Victor Serge wrote: "The two way street proletarian revolution is not, in my view, our purpose; revolution we aim to serve can not be a socialist, humanist sense of the word, and more exactly socializing democratically libertairement done. " It should also be anti-Leninist, but it does not tell us because there are still terribly attached to Lenin and his State and Revolution which he wrote that he "could, if there was a good intellectual faith in today's libertarians, remove any ideological misunderstanding between anarchists and communists. . "Notes 1 I recommend the essential 1000 pages of Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary and other political writings from 1908 to 1947, Robert Laffont / Mouthpieces, 2001; and Victor Serge, Notebooks (1936-1947), Agnone, 2012. 2. Added to News anarchism of Jean Bernier, a former communist become two way street libertarian. . 3 In 1921, Victor Serge had already delivered a remarkable booklet The anarchists and the experience of the Russian Revolution in which he enjoined anarchists to "conduct a comprehensive and systematic two way street review of (their) ideas"; this booklet concluded with these words: "In practice, the only thing that can prevent the agreement of all revolutionary for joint action is the narrow-mindedness of those who thought any different from theirs is harmful. The key for anarchists is that they are not one of them. Add a comment
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