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Insurrectional Anarchism vs. Class-Struggle Anarchism The pamphlet, “The Coming Insurrection” has been attracting attention. A discussion of some of its key points is useful in considering the differences between “insurrectional anarchism” and “class-struggle anarchism.” "The Coming Insurrection"?Insurrectional Anarchism vs. Class-Struggle AnarchismThere has been a spurt of interest in a small radical book titled "The Coming Insurrection" ("TCI"), with authorship attributed to the "Invisible Committee" (IC). It was originally published in France in 2007. That country's police cited it as evidence in a trial of "the Tarnaq 9," radicals who were accused of planning sabotage. The French Interior Minister called it a "manual for terrorism" (quoted on p. 5). A U.S. edition got an unlikely boost by the far-right tv talk show clown Glen Beck. He has repeatedly identified it as a manual for a take-over of the U.S. by the left, by which he means everyone from the mildest liberal Democrats leftward. "This [is a] dangerous leftist book....You should read it to know what is coming and be ready when it does" (Beck, 2009). The interest of many on the left has been piqued; Michael Moore is reported to have read it. From the perspective of revolutionary-libertarian socialism (class-struggle anarchism), I believe that many things are wrong with this pamphlet. But it is right on some very big things. That is a major part of its attraction, despite its opague style (the authors have studied French radical philosophy and it shows). The IC members say that, on a world scale, our society is morally rotten and structurally in the deepest of crises. They denounce this society in every way and oppose all reformist programs for trying to improve it at the margins. They say that a total change is necessary and that this can only be achieved through some sort of revolution. Their goals are the right goals: a classless, stateless, ecologically-balanced, decentralized, and self-managed world. These views are well outside the usual range of acceptable political conversation. Unfortunately, I believe that the tactics and strategy which they propose are mistaken and unlikely to achieve their correct goals. In "Black Flame," Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt review the history of the mainstream of the anarchist movement-of what is often referred to as anarchist-communism. They describe two main strategies within the broad anarchist tradition. "The first strategy, insurrectionist anarchism, argues that reforms are illusory and organized mass movements are incompatible with anarchism, and emphasizes armed action-propaganda by the deed-against the ruling class and its institutions as the primary means of evoking a spontaneous revolutionary upsurge" (2009; p. 123). Historically a minority trend in anarchism, this is probably what most people think of as "anarchism." "The second strategy-what we refer to, for lack of a better term, as mass anarchism...stresses the view that only mass movement can create a revolutionary change in society, that such movements are typically built through struggles around immediate issues and reforms (...) and that anarchists must participate in such movements to radicalize and transform them into levers of revolutionary change" (same; p. 134). I prefer to call this second strategy by the more widely used term, "class-struggle anarchism." (This is a discussion of broad political trends. Individual anarchists are not so sharply divided into "insurrectionists" or "class-struggle" types. Whatever their labels, their activities are likely to overlap with each other.) Terms may be confusing. By "insurrection," most people mean a revolutionary uprising by the mass of people to overturn the ruling class and smash its state. By this definition, it is the class-struggle anarchists who are working for an insurrection. On the other hand, the so-called insurrectionists are not clearly for an inurrection--a popular uprising--but are mainly interested in rebellious activities beinc carried out by themselves, a revolutionary minority. As we shall see, "TCI" is especially ambiguous about wanting a popular insurrection. However, I will stick with the usual political labels. Actually the unnamed authors of this book do not explicitly identify with "anarchism," which they mention negatively. They prefer the label of "communism." Very likely they have been influenced by autonomous trends derived from Marxism, although they do not identify with "Marxism" either. I think that is safe to include them in the tradition of "insurrectionist anarchism." Their advocacy of decentralization is typically anarchist rather than Marxist. In any case, by now there has been so much overlap and interaction between anarchism and libertarian trends in Marxism, that it is not possible (or relevant) to draw a sharp line between them.
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According to "The Coming Insurection," the unions are the immediate enemy. "The first obstacle every social movement faces, long before the police proper, are the unions..." (p. 121). This view blurs distinctions among (1) the workers, who are misdirected by the unions but who get definite benefits from them; (2) the unions themselves as organizations which are created by the workers; and (3) the union officialdom, which is an agent of the capitalist class within the workers' organizations. In other words, the workers and unions and bureaucrats are seen as one bloc, which is exactly how they are seen by the bureaucrats (and their reformist supporters). |
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Spring zu Komment: 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1I am glad that 4rebel found my review “interesting.” I agree with his or her view of TCI. I disagree with his view of “insurrectionism”—or rather the version of “insurrectionism” raised by “the Invisible Committee”—as “not an ideology [but] more about strategy.” It appears to be an overall world view, as reflected in this book and other works. This is not the same thing as specific tactics or strategies. Revolutionary class struggle anarchists are very much for eventual insurrections, that is, for popular uprisings which overturn the state and capitalism. We may be for acts of assassination or other individual or small group actions during an actual civil war when mass forces are engaged. We are also for building alternate institutions (“dual power”) in the sense of community organizing. But none of this contradicts our overall strategy of encouraging popular struggle by workers and all others with the eventual goal of a revolution.
Very interesting review and very interesting comments. In my opinion, discussion should be focused not on classwar vs insurrectionism, but exactly "TCI insurrectionism". As for me, TCI is very strange. While reading I've got the feeling of some... carnival. Politics without politics, organizing without organization, armed presence without armed struggle, abandoned institution of authority... Is it a joke?! I love french contribution into world anarchism experience, but these post-structuralism blow ups my mind. Where do those "non-authors" live? How cut from reality they are? Of course, liberal authority today use smart methods of control, but, in situation of destabilization with potential of overthrowing power, authority will brutally smash all this "armed hippy commune".
Inssurectionism is not an ideology, it is more about strategy. The same like syndicalism is just an option for classwar-anarchism, but it could be terror, or conspiracy, or armed riseup, or even alternative economic project.
Anybody can choose inssurectionism, from classic social anarchists (like in Ukraine) to ultra-nihilists (like in modern Greece ). And there is nothing to be surprised why inssurectionism becomes popular: no resonance from workers in dozens of years! Don't know about US but in EU anarcho-syndicalism doesn't work. Pseudo-syndicalism of AIT, "fighting" in courts? Thanks, no!
This is not revolution, but at least vivid propaganda. People need emotions of struggle and radical image. Without this there will be no respect from workers.
Does the lavel matter? I mean, wether the TCI is the stereotypical insurrectionary anarchism or not, and to engage in this sort of unproductive debate over labels, is to miss the point completely. Wayne does not criticize them for whatever label they use, but because their ideas are a disaster. honest discussion should start by acknowledging the arguments offered to refute the document instead of taking the rather cynical and weak approach of debating whether the label is appropriate or not.
To Anarchist-None:
I guess you don't like my review, huh? But why? It can't be that you object to my criticism of The Coming Insurrection, since you say you and other European insurrectionists do not agree with it. Perhaps you even agree with some of my criticisms? Or have some totally different criticisms? Alas, we willl never know, since you do not deign to tell us how you think TCI is wrong (or how my views on insurrectionism are wrong).
It is true that TCI is not an orthodox statement of insurrectionist anarchism (whatever that would look like), nor is the Invisible Committee an official spokesperson for the i.a. movement (whatever that would be). I implied this when I began my review by noting that they do not seem to identify as "anarchists." Later I pointed oiut their odd position for insurrectionists on "armed struggle." Perhaps I should have made this clearer.
But it is absurd to deny that TCI spreaks for *one view* of insurrectionism, and that it has been somewhat influential on the left as an expression of that view. Why else would you have to deny "for the millionth time" that TCI represents (your views on) insurrectionist anaarcism? Precisely because so many people think that it does--and it does represent one conception of it.
For the millionth time:
'The Coming Insurrection' has NOTHING to do with 'Insurrectional Anarchism'. The author of this above hachet job on IA hasn't even spent time to research his subject. The author obviously has no knowledge of the European Insurrectional Anarchist current or he wouldn't write such inaccurate lines.
Despite the critiques and denunciations made by European IA's of TCI and the behaviour of the Tarnac during their soli campaign, you would think some people would actually read what was written, but isn't going to happen because some writers (anarchist theorists!) are more interested in writing what confirms their dogmatic (and poorly construed) analysis .I guess if we don't translate our texts into English you'll miss them (ignore them).
If you take TCI as a text of 'Insurrectional Anarchism' you don't understand anything about IA.
To HM: if you are claiming that nothng whatever was won by popullar mass struggle, or by small groups efforts, in two thousand years, I must disagree with you. Which does not deny the need for a revolution more thoroguhgoing than has ever been done or ever been possible.
"Insurrectionary struggle is better than no struggle." Popular mass struggle is beter than the struggle of isolated individuals and small groups.
It's actually two thousand years. When it becomes so long we tend to forget how long it's been, only the pressure stays the same.
Of course this can't happen in the US and never will, I am positive the authors didn't even think it it was going to be translated into english when they wrote it, they probably hardly believed it would get published!
France given its past and it's je ne sais quoi of humanism has a more fertile ground for revolution than the entire english-speaking world. Why? Because french people have been fucked in the ass (pardon my english) for not just a couple of centuries but for a thousand years since the Roman Empire decided they needed more slaves.
It's been nearly two hundreds years since we have been organizing, printing, marching and for what? The couple of things we have successfuly been able to grab are now being taken back and despite millions of people striking and voicing their profound disenchantment with capitalism and the state, NOTHING.
Capitalism is collapsing and so is the state — the two being now merely indistinguishable — and we the people need to take over, it's as simple as that.
Insurrectionary struggle is better than no struggle.
Anarcho's review is worth reading. I do think that TCI is not an elaborate joke. This may or may not be a good thing.
L. is right. My spelling is wrong. The town is Tarnac and the radicals are the Tarnac 9.
I agree completely with the comments by Sabotage.
Heretique is interesting. If her (?) criticism of "a dualistic-sectarian" approach is meant to apply to me then I say (1) yes, people do not fit into such sharp categoies in practice and I made this point in the essay). but (2) there are real differences in theory and I think that it is useful to look at them, to develop them, and to see how the different views will affect actual practice.
I have no comment on her speculations about the political psychologies of insurrectionists.
The last comment also writes about people being influenced by more than one trend of anarchist thought. I have no quarrel with this. Anyone reading my stuff knows that my anarchism is influenced by aspects of Marxism, for example, although I do not regard myself as a Marxist. What matters, more than broad schools of thought is the concrete strategies and tactics, in my opinion.
However, I know almost nothing about post-anarchism and so cannot comment on it. More to learn!
The following comment was sent by someone on the North American Anarchist Studies list:
* I like this review, Wayne, though my experience is that many anarchists who identify with insurrectionary philosophies and strategies do not see themselves as being limited to only using these strategies. Your review, I think, does a good job of arguing that "The Coming Insurrection" did claim that one has to only use what they call insurrectionary positions, but you do seem to conflate the Tarnaq 9 and those who have been influenced by insurrectionary ideas, including "The Coming Insurrection," at times, and I think that's a mistake, but I'd love to hear what other people think of that.
My point though is that I think you're right in many of your critiques, but that in practice many folks (like myself) are influenced by both anarcho-communism or syndicalism and insurrectionary schools of though or post-anarchism and its associated not-necessarily-anarchist philosophers (Deleuze and Guattari, Agamben, and so forth). I personally have been very influenced by post-structuralists (I hate the term post-anarchism), but I also work with unions and other community organizations, like you recommend. I know many others who would feel similarly.
what i find frustrating is the inability of people to get beyond a dualistic, sectarian way of thinking, and to realize that we can take what we like from all of the above. i enjoy this piece, and i think it states the obvious (very concisely and wonderfully).
personally, i kind of admire berkman. and who can argue that well-designed, effective actions--which demonstrate our power and chip away at the crumbling power structures--are undesirable?
of course, the answer is that it takes well-connected, intuitive (dare i say organizational?) anarchists to come up with actions that will resonate and have ripple effects. what i've noticed is that many insurrectionary tactics in the US fail because of the enormous disconnect (on many levels) between the insurrectionary actors and regular folks. essentially, in my opinion, when you do a public action, the logical goal is to get folks to say "yeah, let's do more of that!" i know insurrectionists are offended by the idea of proselytizing, but i find that completely hypocritical. why write books, if not to change people's minds? why do public actions? just to fuck shit up or prove your questionable manhood? to see yourself on anarchistnews.org? why waste your valuable time with that?
but so many insurrectionist (i get so tired of typing that word) actions just fall completely flat, because the people taking them out have no discernable ideas, goals, experience, or intelligence. hate to say it, but that's my observation. maybe i'm not aware of as many insurrectionist actions as i need to be....but i fear that i am correct.
i would love to be proven wrong, though. my opinion is that insurrectionism is the perfect activity for culturally impotent males. not my favorite demographic...
i read TCI when it first started circulating as a pamphlet in north america. i read it too many times in fact. eventually though i came to revolutionary "class struggle" anarchism.
now a personal critique:
it is nitpicking but i think it might be important to make it a distinction between "insurrectionary" vs "revolutionary" types. of course insurrectionist anarchists/communists are for revolution, and revolutionary anarchists/communists are for insurrection. but as you have said it is a matter of vision and strategy to make that rupture with state and capital possible. for this reason i think the distinction can be made because only revolutionary "mass bassed/class struggle" anarchists have a clear vision and strategy on how to self-organize to make an insurrection into a revolution, whereas most insurrectionists only know how to make limited insurrections. as you said they are anarchists/communists, they have the same end goals. and even though i think we have a better analysis/vision i think there are some things from the ultraleft/ia critique of various bureaucracies we can learn from.
i think many young workers and political militants today don't realize that when we say we need to be in the unions, that it means we need to be in the unions and against the bureaucracy, not that we are vehemently pro-union. that we need to be fighting outside as well as inside and against, pro-proletariat and not pro-this form or that form. this is the critique of self-management in itself. yes we need to self-organize, but no form of organization guarantees democracy or communism, though some might be better than others. it is through these organizations that we'll learn however how to organize the world in a free manner and eventually have them dissolve into the everyday organization of life in a anarchist/communist society.
Hello,
There is a slight spelling error here. The name of the town is "Tarnac" and not "Tarnaq."
This was a very interesting article to read. It makes me want to pick up this book's English translation.
Best Regards,
L
I made many of the same points myself:
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/the-coming-insur...eview
I'm still in two-minds whether it is just an elaborate joke or not, to be honest. Suffice to say, it is a seriously weak book with a reformist strategy hidden behind ultra-leftist rhetoric....