The Withering Away of State & Church

thoughts from a socialist church abolitionist . . . I struggle often with how other socialists do not recognize that the state will always be an obstacle. If a new revolutionary state is established to construct socialism (throughout the nations and territories on what was formerly the United States), the state should be seen as …

Peter Gelderloos on violence/non-violence

"Something that critics of nonviolence have long said is that nonviolence hides structural violence or the violence of the State, yet it is this kind of violence, and not riots or liberation struggles, that harms far more people around the world. It was no surprise, then, that many people, especially outside the United States, thought …

Lenin and the state – an anarchist perspective

State and Revolution - 99 years later from an anarchist perspective In some ways reading through Lenin's 'State and Revolution' as an anarchist there are surprises. Although he specifically criticises anarchists on a number of occasions he's also very clear on his views of the state: The workers should smash the existing capitalist state in the …