Anti-Imperialists of the World, Unite! Towards an Anarchist Theory of Geopolitics Reply
By Keith Preston
This essay is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Theory and Practice, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press.
In the century and a half that modern anarchist movements have been in existence, anarchism has thus far passed through two distinct phases. The first of these was the era of classical anarchism, a movement inspired by the thought of Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, and Peter Kropotkin, which arose of out the rebellions of 1848 and came to position itself as the most militant wing of the international workers movement. The orientation of classical anarchism towards proletarian socialism was appropriate given that the “labor question” was the dominant political struggle of the time. This embryonic era of anarchist history lasted for nearly a century before meeting its end after the defeat of the anarchists at Krondstadt and in the Spanish Civil War, the achievement of hegemony by Communism on the Left, the massive strengthening of states during the “managerial revolution” of the mid-twentieth century, and the unrivaled levels of militarist bloodshed and statist repression perpetrated by the rival imperialist powers during the two world wars.
The second phase of modern anarchism, what might be termed “neo-anarchism,” had its roots in the student rebellions of the late 1960s. Neo-anarchism reflected the general trend within the New Left milieu in which it was born by shifting its focus away from workers’ struggles and the proletarian class and towards an agglomeration of both privileged class youth and members of traditional social and cultural outgroups such as racial minorities, feminist women, homosexuals, immigrants and the like all the while becoming intertwined with the growing ecological consciousness, pop psychology, and therapeutic culture of the time. This ideological formula continues to dominate anarchist movements at the present juncture nearly a half century after it emerged.
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