The Catalan Chessboard: An Anarchist Perspective

Just checking on the time that you have stated in the announcement

Thanks adrienne! The time has been corrected :)

Anarchists have a lot to bring to the table especially in Catalonia; the place where anarchy was born 1936 before being put out with brute force in 1939. Anarchy didn't collapse in 1939 Catalonia like many on the alt right would have you believe. It was conquered by a dictator before it could have a chance to really prove itself and have an impact on the rest of the world. His name was Franco Francisco; the greatest bastard to ever walk the earth! Had it not been for him and people like Mussolini and Hitler at the time, the boot on our necks wouldn't be so large as it is today making revolutions everywhere a greater possibility.

So long as we hammer the truth into peoples heads about the past, there may come a day we will have built a big enough movement to push forward and perhaps popular support for a mass labor uprising to change social relations forever. Think mega big and get big change. Think big and get medium change. Think medium and you get small change. Think small and you'll get no change.

We may not achieve pure anarchism but anarco syndicalism in a few places which will eventually leanto anarcho communism.

I can't name one wage slave that would rather be a slave the rest of their life than have democratic control in the workplace which translates to having control of ones destiny. Putting power over the means of production into private hands is too much power for one group or individual to have over others. ; others as in working class slaves and anti-capitalists. Who wants to live under the mercy of a boss who could fire them any moment? NOBODY! Being fired could be a matter of life and death in a capitalist society; especially for the working poor who have no one to go to. It's not a very pleasant feeling.

With the corporate control of our everyday lives, I can't think of a better time to hyper educate the masses about what really happened in Spain in the 1930's which direct ties into the anti-fascist struggle. Fighting Franco is about as Anti-fascist as it gets. Without intense organizing, our numbers will be thin and short of the mass support needed for popular revolt. We must have common sense and not kid ourselves about what can be accomplished with little to no support for this and that cause.

We must have a common idea and it must STRONG! It must be simple, straight to the pint and relevant for everyone to understand and relate. YOU WILL NOT CHANGE SOCIAL RELATIONS WITHOUT THIS COMBINATION OF EFFECTS! As a person studying human psychology, mathematics, the history of struggle and common sense, I can tell you, I know this to be a fact!!! You need powerful organization based on non-hierarchical principles to show the world that anarchy works. You have to show the world the difference between leaders and rulers. There is a difference. Anarchism can have leaders and teachers. It can't have dictators that break for the tradition of anarchist principles or else it becomes a contradiction and using force to beat back capitalism, authoritarians and fascists is not a contradiction as much as the alt right has you thinking it is. Their message is stronger than ours only because they work harder than we do to convince people of their lies. This can be countered however.

There has to be a common cause and you have to be more energized and organize than your enemy or they will outflank you! The delivery of your message must be done in ways that mimic the far right essentially using their own tactics and mannerism against them.

This way, we can be more effective at revealing what is wrong with society, how to get rid of it and what to replace it with. It must be a simple cohesive message so that everyone involved feels united in a common idea or it will not be cohesive and will fail like occupy. Having the means of production go from private corporate ownership to grass roots community organizing is going to require a lot of well planned radical strikes with anti-police repression forces at the front-lines. Expect shit to get nasty. No revolution is clean. There has to be a measurement of success and failures that was absent in the occupy movement. When there is a problem that arises, it must be acknowledged and dealt with rather than ignored for the sake of keeping numbers high. People need to be united by anarchist principles that include anti-fascism/anti-capitalism.

We have to hammer the truth in peoples heads in order to counter the propaganda coming from the alt right. Everyone with a brain for the most part knows fascism is a far right ideology born out of 1930's Europe/Italy. The ruling class rich will always use the state to defend their slave operations and will use what ever trick is up their sleeve to keep our hands tied behind our backs, enslaved by them and dependent on them. They stole the land and the means of production and use the state to protect their plantation. We have to break out of this. They will spread rumors about us. The campaign of disinformation has already been launched on youtube where most people in America spend all their free time. We have to counter them.