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The russian revolution of 1917: Carlos Taibo

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We close our series – without for a moment suggesting that this is the last word – on the russian revolution of 1917 with an interview with Carlos Taibo, author of the recent work, in spanish, Anarquismo y revolución en Rusia (1917-1921).  … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Cornelius Castoriadis

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The autonomous activity of the masses belongs by definition to what is repressed in history. Cornelius Castoriadis Cornelius Castoriadis’ saw in the Bolshevik seizure of power the beginning of the end of the russian revolution; an end marked by the administrative dispossession … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Rosa Luxemburg

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

In 1917 there were more than twelve million members of the Russian consumers’ Cooperative societies; and the Soviets themselves are a wonderful demonstration of their organising genius. Moreover, there is probably not a people in the world so well educated … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Max Nettlau

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

… Anarchism does not preach anything contrary to the principles which have always inspired men to strive for freedom and right. It would indeed be absurd to try and impose something new upon mankind. No! Anarchism is nothing but the … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Maria Nikiforova

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their owns situation and seize freedom for themselves. Maria Nikiforova In memory of the many who made the russian revolution of 1917, a … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Bruno Jasienski

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — “true conformity” is possible only in the cemetery. Joseph Stalin, “Our purposes” Pravda #1, (22 January 1912) For many of those who threw themselves into the russian revolution, with … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Daniel Guérin

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The Russian Revolution was, in fact, a great mass movement, a wave rising from the people which passed over and submerged ideological formations. It belonged to no one, unless to the people. In so far as it was an authentic … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Victor Serge

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

Bolshevik thought takes it for granted that truth is its peculiar possession. To Lenin, to Bukharin, to Trotsky, to Preobrajensky, to many another thinker I could mention, the materialist dialectic of Marx and Engels was at one and the same … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Alexander Berkman

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

It has been asserted by some writers that Bolshevik accession to power in Russia was due to a coup de main, and doubt has been expressed regarding the social nature of the October change. Nothing could be further from the … Continue reading →

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The russian revolution of 1917: Emma Goldman

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Julius Gavroche

The argument that destruction and terror are part of revolution I do not dispute. I know that in the past every great political and social change necessitated violence. America might still be under the British yoke but for the heroic … Continue reading →

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