Started reading [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] as [[Especifismo]] is [[node club]] node this week.
Sounds really good so far. Seems very adjacent to [[Anarchist Cybernetics]] in it’s push towards organisational structures within anarchism.
Sounds related to [[Platformism]] too.
born out of nearly 50 years of anarchist experiences in South America
– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]
What does ‘specifically anarchist’ actually mean?
Especifists inherently state their objection to the idea of a synthesis organization of revolutionaries or multiple currents of anarchists loosely united
– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]
Interesting. What (specifically) is a synthesis organisation? Ah OK - [[Synthesis anarchism]].
North American anarchists have also offered their experiences of synthesis organization as lacking any cohesiveness due to multiple, contradictory political tendencies
– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]
the Especifists criticize these tendencies for being driven by spontaneity and individualism and for not leading to the serious, systematic work needed to build revolutionary movements
– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]
A particular stress of the Especifismo praxis is the role of anarchist organization, formed on the basis of shared politics, as a space for the development of common strategy and reflection on the group’s organizing work
– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]
All sounds a bit like some of the critiques of [[Occupy]] - in that it failed because there was no organisational structure. See e.g. [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]], [[Anarchist Cybernetics]].
On organization, the Especifists call for a far deeper basis of anarchist organization than the Platform’s “theoretical and tactical unity,” but a strategic program based on analysis that guides the actions of revolutionaries
– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]
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Especifismo’s conception of the relation of ideas to the popular movement is that they should not be imposed through a leadership, through “mass line,” or by intellectuals
– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]
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Especifismo is considered to have come to broadly similar conclusions to the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) and may be considered to be very similar to [[platformism]][citation needed], which in turn claims its roots lie in the organisational work of figures like [[Mikhail Bakunin]], [[Errico Malatesta]] and [[Nestor Makhno]].
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key concepts
The Especifists put forward three main thrusts to their politics, the first two being on the level of organization. By raising the need for a specifically anarchist organization built around a unity of ideas and praxis, the Especifists inherently state their objection to the idea of a synthesis organization of revolutionaries or multiple currents of anarchists loosely united.
Without a strategy that stems from common political agreement, revolutionary organizations are bound to be an affair of reactivism against the continual manifestations of oppression and injustice and a cycle of fruitless actions to be repeated over and over
Especifists criticize these tendencies for being driven by spontaneity and individualism and for not leading to the serious, systematic work needed to build revolutionary movements
trust within the members and groups is built that allows for a deep, high-level discussion of their action.
It must have as a foundation the experience of the [[struggle of the oppressed]] and their aspirations, and from those elements it must set the goals and the tasks to be followed by the [[revolutionary organization]] in order to succeed not only in the final objective but also in the immediate ones.
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Great node already, thank you for submitting it to the [[node club]]. I’m eager to learn more about especifismo. Vera’s subnode is a great recap of the key points, could be used to improve the [[wp]] article?
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