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Title: Revolutionaries Author: Dermot Sreenan Date: 1994 Language: en Topics: revolutionary anarchism, Workers Solidarity, Ireland Source: Retrieved on 18th November 2021 from http://struggle.ws/ws94/revolution43.html Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 43 â Autumn 1994.
I may not have any chains around my feet, but still, I am not free. In
modern society â capitalism â our bosses and leaders have invented new
methods to chain us. According to the propaganda we are supposed to live
in a free, democratic society, yet all of us experience limitations in
our lives. Everyday more of us are being flung on the dole, families are
being thrown out on the streets, our pay packets are shrinking and
prices keep going up. Politicians care about little else except their
popularity. In truth, we all know that this free, democratic society
doesnât exist on the streets where we live.
We must change the system which forces us to live under itâs heel. The
only way to take the power back from the bosses and place it in the
hands of the people is via Revolution. Capitalism now operates globally.
If you are serious about fighting them then there is a glaring need to
organise and co-ordinate. It is in answer to this need that
revolutionary organisations spring.
Anarchists have an acknowledged respect for individual freedom. We
believe that anarchist ideas and principles are those which will bring
about a successful revolution.
We are not interested in changing our leaders. We wish to change the
system so that there is no leaders just real democracy. We therefore
believe in the need to develop individually. Socialism doesnât exist
without freedom. What we want is a society where we are free to exercise
control over our own lives.
Just as there are major differences between Marxists and Anarchists in
politics so there is in the way we organise. We do not have leaders and
led. Anarchists believe that ideas are the lifeblood of a revolutionary
movement. We wish to be the educators and instigators of our class but
not the leaders. The working class has been led down enough âcul de
sacsâ to not be bothered with the journey.
The WSM, as our organisation, must reflect the type of society we wish
to create. All our members are active in the work and decision making of
the organisation. Each member carries out the tasks of writing, paper
selling, and preparing educational talks. We are all involved in
campaign work and in our trade unions. Here we address the issues and
try and win people to our politics in both heat and mind.
There are no power positions within the WSM. Any position held within
the organisation is electable, recallable and entails administrative
work. The Leninists demonstrated that power when wielded in the name of
the working class means the precedence of the party over the people.
There will always come a time when there is a clash between the party
and the people. This is because it is the party making the decisions on
behalf of the people and not the people making and exercising their own
decisions.. We say that Anarchism has no place for power unless it is in
the hands of the workers themselves.
The need for efficient co-ordination and decision making in a post
revolutionary period shall be dealt with by the workersâ own
organisations. The history of struggle is also the history of
self-organisation. >From the Paris Commune through the original Russian
Soviets to the workersâ self-management in 1930âs Spain, people have
automatically sought to organise themselves and create their own
decision-making organs. Democracy either involves decisions being taken
by the people being effected or it is not democracy. Such
self-organisation will provide the structure for our future free society
to be built on.
The WSM are not players in a game called politics. For us politics is
the fight forward for a better future. Anarchism will either be the
creation of a free and politically aware working class.....or it will
not be anarchism.
It is the role of a revolutionary organisation is to get our class to a
stage where we take on the might of the state, destroy it and replace it
with workersâ councils. There is no room for leaders or parties doing it
on our behalf. There is only room for the working class being in control
and in power. When the working class are in charge of society then it
will only be run in our interests.