A-Infos (en) Libertarian Communism #2 - by Red and Black - Center for Libertarian Studies - Editorial (ca) [machine translation]

We are pleased to present a new issue of Libertarian Communism, published in collaboration 
with colleagues in Chile and Argentina. As mentioned in the previous work, we aim to help 
rebuild a center of libertarian class character and within the forces struggling to 
overcome the miseries of capitalism. In this sense, Libertarian Communism is intended as a 
forum for debate and theoretical development, being those instances we need to understand 
the reality in which we seek to influence. ---- Editorial ---- We are pleased to present a 
new issue of Libertarian Communism, published in collaboration with colleagues in Chile 
and Argentina. As mentioned in the previous work, we aim to help rebuild a center of 
libertarian class character and within the forces struggling to overcome the miseries of 
capitalism. In this sense, Libertarian Communism is intended as a forum for debate and 
theoretical development, being those instances we need to understand the reality in which 
we seek to influence.

We devote significant space in this issue to the dossier on Mikhail Bakunin. The aim is to 
deepen the contributions of this militant, bringing new translations of unfamiliar texts 
while digging deeper into the interpretation of its production. We believe it is important 
for the reconstruction of the libertarian option within the revolutionary camp revisit 
this author, who, in a way not without contradictions, contributed to the establishment of 
the basic pillars of the libertarian left.

Together with the dossier we present a Castilian translation of several chapters of 
Alexandre Skirda on the history of organized anarchism. This work, little known in our 
countries, delves into the actual processes that were the basis of the theoretical 
contributions of the various libertarians, while delivering the necessary 
contextualization of them. Thus, we believe important to understand that the various 
organizational developments should not be considered as "ideas" unrealistic and applicable 
at all times and, although the theorists who produced them have expressed it that way, but 
who were strongly anchored in material reality. The translation of Skirda reconstructs the 
context, a necessary task to locate the contributions of Bakunin that approach in the dossier.

We follow this dossier, also has three papers considering in detail a point in the 
development of international labor movement. The globalization of capitalism brought about 
the internationalization of the methods of struggle against it. Hand in hand with the 
concentration and centralization of capital and changes in the production process, labor 
organizations were ignoring the dispersion of the office and taking fragmentary features 
of mass organizations. This new kind of unionism and rearrangements caused tensions within 
the political and ideological trends revolutionary, demonstrated both in practice and in 
political disputes. In this regard, we believe important to study these processes and the 
different ways in which occurred in various regions.

Continuing with the text of the Libertarian Party, which takes up the party tradition 
Bakunin and applied in the context of struggle of 70, included in this number, for their 
particular interest, two essays that introduce the topic of armed struggle. This issue 
will be central object of reflection in a forthcoming edition of Libertarian Communism, 
but we consider important to start the debate now. In contexts such as Argentina and 
Chile, the discussion of armed struggle is fundamental, not only as an experience of the 
recent past, but also as a tactic or strategy available in the methodological arsenal of 
revolutionaries.

We also publish in the article by Paul Avrich on the Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin, the 
first part share in the previous issue of Libertarian Communism. With this, approach an 
empirical demonstration of the importance of studying the processes in its specificity, 
detached from all dogmatism. The Bolshevik party, which from a simplistic reading can be 
seen as a monolithic entity dedicated to building state capitalism, was carrying 
opposition who claimed political positions closer to Soviet democracy of the early days of 
the Russian revolution. Who could not prevail and succeed in infighting is something that 
should be studied and understood.

Finally, we consider indispensable to our military praxis Libertarian Communism spreading. 
In this sense, in the course of this year we launched a number of discussions and debate 
with researchers on subjects of interest militant. As announced, the aim of the journal, 
the aim of these talks and Study Center is to approach, and encourage the disusiones 
dinfundir for reconstruction of a left and libertarian class that is capable of 
influencing reality. It is the north that guides our production.
Center for Libertarian Studies - Red and Black

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