by 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 Plataformismo and EspecifismoIn 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?by Sergio HkBk, Carla Morato, and Miguel Brea (anarcho-syndicalists and platformists) translated by CES and comrades Organized and non-institutional political spaces are at a historical impasse. They’re quickly approaching a theoretical ‘boiling point’. Between this political cycle finally drawing to a close and the new one just starting to emerge, lots of different projects with […]
Read More Not Everything that Shines Leads to Popular PowerWe understand strategy as a framework with a specific content. It makes general guidelines within a broad context. These are parameters for action at different fronts and between different camps. This is why strategy, for us, is fundamentally about coordination over time.
Read More Without a consistent revolutionary theory, tactics and strategy are easily confusedWe have to consider more than just what people believe; we have to consider what they do.
Read More The difference between comrades and enemies might seem obvious, but in practice it’s never as clear as it is in theoryWe have to focus our reflections on concrete needs we have because, if we don’t clearly name the needs, a specific organization risks becoming a depoliticizing, essentializing and time-consuming space.
Read More Political organization: how, why, and to what endsWe see social force as the potential for carrying out the revolutionary project to its intended goal.
Read More Producing reality through a process of ruptureby Jose Luis Carretero Miramar translated by the Center for Especifismo Studies [1] The Spanish middle class is languishing, or at least that social group that called itself “middle class” for the last fifty years. Its main outlets for development and growth are looking less and less reliable (academic degrees, public employment, the Welfare State, […]
Read More The Passion and Martyrdom of the Middle ClassRevolutionary strategy has to make sense and be consistent enough to follow even as the situation evolves. It must be sustainable and coherent to effectively hold things together and “prevent unraveling”.
Read More Different from what’s produced by the immediate situation, and different from what’s reproduced by the systemRacism, xenophobia, misogyny, etc. are persistent forces acting against the political solidarity of the oppressed classes.
Read More A new kind of protagonism
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