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socialist_n_TN

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7. BTW, the ideas you've been reading sound to me like some....

Sat May 30, 2015, 07:05 PM

May 2015

kind of anarcho-syndicalism. It's not surprising because Trotskyism is MUCH closer to anarcho-syndicalism than it is to the bureaucratic degeneration that the USSR fell into under Stalin. That opinion will probably surprise MANY of the anarchists I interact with on here, but I do think that it's true.

The problem with not having some sort of centralized plan is that the anarchistic revolution embodied in the confederation of councils will NOT stand up to the capitalist counterattack of the counterrevolution.

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