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CHOMSKY ON ANARCHISM re moving such and such laws, such a ministry or such a go vernment, but at breaking up the very foundations of society itself? 2 3 The workers of Paris, in 1871. broke the silence, and proceeded to abolish property, the basis of all civilization! Yes, gentlemen, (he Commune intended to abolish that class property which makes the labor of the many the wealth of the few. It aimed at the expropriation of the expropriators. It wanted to make individual property a truth by transforming the means of production, land and capital, now chiefly the means of enslaving and exploiting labor, into mere instruments of free and associated labor. 24 The Commune, of course, was drowned in blood. The nature of the "civilization" that the workers of Paris sought to overcome in their attack on "the very foundations of socie ty itself" was re vealed, once again, when the troops of the Versailles government reconquered Paris from its population. As Marx wrote, bi nerl y bur accurately: The civilization and justice of bourgeois order comes OUt in its lurid light whenever the slaves and drudges of that order rise against their masters. Then this civilization and justice stand forth as undisguised savagery and lawless revenge ... the infernal deeds of the soldiery refIecr the innate spirit of tha t civilization of which they are the mercenary vin dicators .... The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar ... [Ibid., pp. 74, 77] 125 Despite the violent destruction of the Commune, Bakunin wrote that Paris opens a new era, "that of the definitive and complete emancipation of the popular masses and their furure (fue solida riry, across and despite state boundaries ... the next revolution of man, internarional and in solidarity, will be the resurrection of Paris"-a revolution that the world still awaits. The consistent anarchist. then. should be a socialist. but a socialist of a particular SOrt. He will nOt only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers. but he will also insist that this appropriation be direer, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. He will, in short. oppose the organization of production by the Government. It means State-socialism, the command of the State officials over production and the com mand of managers, scientists, shop-officials in the shop .. .. The goal of the working class is liberation from exploitation. This goal is not re ached and cannot be reached by a new directing and governing class substituting itself for the
NOTES ON RNRRCHISM bourgeoisie. It is only realized by the workers themselves being master over production. These remarks are taken from "Five Theses on the Class Struggle" by the lefrwing Marxist Anton Pannekoek, one of the outstanding theorists of the council communist movement. And in fact, radical Marxism merges with anarchist currents. As a funher illustration, consider the following characterization of "revolurio nary Socialism":
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