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I have to admit I don't know anything about it, both in general and the revolutionary anarchists. Can you recommend some sources?

>Now, it should be stressed that the developments of anarchism in Latin America are quite different from those of Europe

Could you give some background? If you feel like it of course.

>But the kicker here is that their politics are odd as shit

In what way? I can't read Spanish so the above comics were of little help.

Should definitely follow up on this. Sorry for the wait.

>>9594

I'll dig something up, though bare in mind that many sources are in spanish or portuguese. Is that a problem?

I don't have a lot of data on organised insurrectionists, which makes some sense considering some of them are anti-organisationalists. You can see them often showing up to smash shit up and pick fights with cops at protests.

Anarchosyndicalism was huge, fucking huge, in Latin America from the 19th century through half the 20th century. Unfortunately, the defeat of the Spanish Revolution followed by the dictatorships that were implanted all over Latin America managed to keep the tendency down for the time being. They still exist, including some of the mayor ones like FORA, but they have somewhat lost the relevance they had.

Especifismo is the FAU's model to struggle for anarchism. Allegedly based on Malatesta's ideology, you can probably find their documentation on their site as well as other especifista organisations (FARJ, FAR, a bunch of others).

If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask, I'll get around to answering sometime…

>>9605

>Could you give some background? If you feel like it of course.

Well, first off anarchism was the major working class ideology throughout much of Latin America's history, though sadly it has been replaced by social-democracy ever since the military dictatorships of Latin America decided to step down.

Latin America has also historically been a continent of escalated class struggle. What's particular is that many parts of Latin America have the potential for first world status, but through the continued plunging of imperialism it has remained in third world conditions for most of its population (historically, this seems to be changing now at least slightly).

The arrival of "fascism" in Latin America was delayed and implanted. There is the case of Peron I guess but fuck him.

Contemporarily, the focus of many left tendencies in Latin America is finding an appropriate way to deal with imperialism, which has been crushing the continent since its fucking discovery by the europeans. In first world countries, it seems, imperialism takes a secondary place, instead putting concerns for stuff like sexism at the forefront of the programme.

>>9605

>In what way? I can't read Spanish so the above comics were of little help.

Well, the concepts get a little mixed up between different organisations so they must be handled with care.

One of the odd things about "Revolutionary Anarchists" is their trotskyish sectarianism. Even especifistas are "eclecticists" and/or "anarcho-communist revisionists" (yes, really).

According to these guys, people like Kropotkin were revisionists and petty bourgeois (fucking what), shying away from the true proletarian anarchism of Bakunin. They do like Makhno and Magón, though. As well as the "historical FAU."

They do like materialism and dialectics, too, and generally like iberoamerican anarchist militants who were more inclined to "popular power" than traditional anarchist ideas of freedom.

One particular organisation of this tendency is actually vanguardist and democratic centralist.

If this sounds like bolshevism/leninism to you, well… they do offer serious critique of leninism, trotskyism, stalinism, maoism and other marxisms (leftcoms, councilists and foquistas included). Like Lenin was an opportunist and apologist of the petty-bourgeoisie, Stalin a reactionary and apologist of bourgeois regimes, Councilists have abandoned dialectics and have no capacity to understand the class struggle, and so on.

Their documents are in spanish, portuguese and french, but I can translate points in particular if anyone is interested.

Bakunin being their single most important referent, they tend to invoke him a lot. As the biggest Bakunin fan around, I am okay with that, but as some especifistas pointed out, they seem to be abusing Bakunin to become a censor of what the anarchist movement should do.

I don't know how exactly significant in social terms they are, but they seem to be a grassroots movement.

What do you think? Do they seem like entryists or opportunists to you?

At least they are better than the "new libertarian" opportunists.

I probably made a mess of this post, so you should probably ask me to clarify.

>>9648

>The arrival of "fascism" in Latin America was delayed and implanted.

The Shock Doctrine corroborates this. Basically, the more totalitarian the government, the more money that a few American investors can make.