Mertcan Bulak
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Ağustos 2020 tarihinde katıldı
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In his analysis of representative government, Kropotkin argues that the workers’ call for universal suffrage can accomplish nothing since political systems will always be manipulated by those who control the economy.
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Where the other Social Darwinists argued that the struggle between individuals leads to the survival of the fittest, Kropotkin asserted that the unit of competition is the species as a whole and that the species which has the greatest degree of co-operation and support between its members is most likely to flourish.
The defeat of the Paris Commune, which ended in the slaughter of twenty-five thousand communards, and saw fourteen thousand more incarcerated, five thousand deported and thousands more driven into exile, meant that a decade would pass before the devastated anarchist movement could pick up momentum again.
The narodniks in the early sixties had developed out of the nihilist movement and went to live with and educate the people (narod). Adopting a mixture of revolutionary populism and philosophical materialism, they called for a new society based on a voluntary association of producers on the lines of the traditional Russian mir or village commune.
Bakunin rejected parliamentary politics, called for the immediate destruction of the State, and insisted that the workers and peasants should emancipate themselves. Marx on the other hand dismissed as ‘nonsense’ his belief in the ‘free organization of the working class from below upwards’. Where Marx despised the peasantry as rural idiots and the lumpenproletariat as riffraff, Bakunin recognized their revolutionary potential. To Marx’s call for the conquest of political power, Bakunin opposed economic emancipation first and foremost.
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