Being ready, willing, and accepting of reality, as it is, means not prioritizing our own ideas without considering how they could be positively influenced by other ideas. Our ideology isn’t coming from the outside, and it doesn’t ignore strategy in favor of organizational form. This is because, rather than coups, militarism, and reformism, we see […]
Read More Circulating in a global systemThe histories we choose to tell are not neutral, and it’s important not to sell them as such. These histories reflect our values, beliefs, desires, and positions. This is also true for the histories told and retold by the State. Even though no theory of reality can claim neutrality, the State presents itself as a […]
Read More The State promises to be neutral and amorphousPower is manifested through social relations, including relations with institutions like the State, the military, and the capitalist economy. The positioning can change, but not easily. And the same social relations vary in relative power depending on the context. Power develops in the relations to the institutions, not in the institutions themselves. It’s created in […]
Read More Where the power isAn abridged translation of “Más proletariado, menos obituarios” by Agustín Guillamón translated by Coco N. Spirator and Washington Zermeño Introduction A number of critics over the last few decades have brought class politics into question as a strategic, emancipatory horizon. They point to deindustrializing western economies, a fragmenting workforce, the growth of the service sector, […]
Read More No More Obituaries for the ProletariatIt’s true that there’s a great force (among the people), an untapped force that can unquestionably match that of the government and the ruling classes combined; but unless it’s organized, this force never becomes powerful. The power of the State is itself based on the guaranteed advantage of organized forces over the raw power of […]
Read More Organization is a Necessityby Liza, a platformist organization in Spain Two Traditions, Same Strategic Problem In the contemporary debate on organized anarchism, two terms often appear that are sometimes presented as opposing currents: platformism and especifismo. However, a more detailed historical analysis reveals that both stem from a common concern: how to ensure anarchism has political organization, strategic […]
Read More Platformism and EspecifismoWhen dealing with difficult ideas and unfamiliar terminology, it can be helpful to use an analogy or take a word out of its familiar context in order to theorize it. Taken out of its typical context and made into an analogy, the concept of the political line can be made more readily available to anarchist […]
Read More The Political LineIn Militant Kindergarten, the Center for Especifismo Studies invites radicalized and radicalizing people to participate in an educational project together. For the success of this seminar year after year, our ideas have to be dynamic and capable of communicating to the actual participants. To this end, we have proposed three practical ways to understand especifismo […]
Read More WHAT IS ESPECIFISMO?A Response to Daniel Rashid’s “Popular Power or Class Power” by Carl Eugene Stroud Note: This is the original text of a Spanish translation that was published by Regeneración Libertaria and can be found here: https://regeneracionlibertaria.org/2025/07/03/la-voz-de-un-militante-del-especifismo/ Ideas move, especially influential ones. Translation is part of this movement, as is education. Of course, some ideas end […]
Read More The Voice of an Especifismo MilitantTranslation note:The following is a translation by Carl Eugene Stroud of a chapter from the biography by Jose Luis Carretero titled Abraham Guillén Guerrilla y autogestión. In his last major works (“Economía libertaria”, “Socialismo libertario”, and “Economía Autogestionaria”), Abraham Guillén makes a final summary of his basic economic perspective, leading up to his main theoretical […]
Read More Self-Management: Guillén’s Alternative
