An Anarchist FAQ updated
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Thursday June 27, 2002 09:26
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An Anarchist FAQ has been updated to version 9.7. Lots of new material.
"An Anarchist FAQ" webpage has been updated. It can be found at:
http://www.anarchistfaq.org/
http://www.anarchismfaq.org/
http://www.anarchyfaq.org/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/
An Anarchist FAQ is an in depth introduction to anarchist
ideas, ideals and history. Find out why anarchism is
opposed to hierarchy, state and capitalism. Find out what
different types of anarchism there is and why it is also
called libertarian socialism. Find out why anarchists oppose
thepresent system and what they aim to replace it with.
It has been updated on June 27th to mark the birth
of Emma Goldman, famous anarchist and feminist
writer.
After becoming an anarchist after the Haymarket events,
she quickly became the most famous anarchist in America.
Expelled from "the land of the free" for seeking true freedom,
she was deported to Bolshevik Russia where she saw the
revolution at first hand. She quickly came to the conclusion
that the Bolsheviks were crushing the revolution in favour of
party dictatorship. After trying to help imprisoned anarchists,
she finally leaves the country convinced that Lenin's USSR
was not remotely socialist. With the outbreak of the Spanish
Revolution in 1936 she wholeheartedly works to help the
Spanish Anarchists while opposing their compromises
in the struggle against fascism.
In addition, visit the updated FAQ links page with over
750 links to anarchist webpages, organisations, papers,
magazine, books, publishers and so on as well as many
non-anarchist but related sites of interest. This can
be found at:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/links.html
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/links.html
The best one-stop place to discover the anarchist community
on line.
yours in solidarity
Anarcho
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So Whats New in the FAQ? -- version 9.7
27-JUNE-02
Section H.3
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secH3.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secH3.html
New section on the "myths of Marxism." Covers the contradictions
in the Marxist and Leninist theories of the state, whether the state is
simply an instrument of class rule and whether anarchists and
Marxists want the same thing. In addition, covers whether Marxists
seek to place power in the hands of workers' organisation and
their position on "workers' control." Plus lots more.
Section H.8
../http:/www.infoshop.org/faq/secH8.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secH8.html
New section on why anarchists oppose Leninist vanguard parties.
Discusses their anti-socialist and elitist tendencies and explains
why they are "bureaucratic centralist" rather than "democratic
centralist." Plus lots more.
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Comments (8 of 8)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8This is of absolutely no importance what so ever. Please publish some real news and make this newswire interesting.
Hey Mr X.
If you want news, YOU publish a story. That's
what indymedia is all about after all.
Anyway, any update to the Anarchist FAQ is
good news for me at least.
Yes, the FAQ is a fantastic resource; but the problem is, if every time there is an update to the website, and a newswire article is published, those articles would cross from being news to being a regular advertisement.
Furthermore, if every similar site were to have such messages each time new content was added, on a purely practical level, the newswire could collapse under the weight of updates!
Again, I don't mean to take away from how good and how useful this website is - but there's sometimes a clash between not interfering with content and providing for a wide range of stories to come forward without being drowned out.
Advertisements like this are in my opinion OK from time to time, as they're obviously not plugging a product or commercial service. It helps Indymedia, again in my opinion, if those who would publicise their websites could show some restraint in their use of this newswire for that purpose, designed, maintained and promoted by other activists.
At least they publish the URL. There are organizations (SWP/GR)that publish the full version of their weekly bulletins.
The anarchists are so cute! Their ideology is as fanciful as that of the Legion of Mary, but they still want everyone to know all about it.
There must be some sort of missionary impulse in Western culture.
"This is of absolutely no importance what so ever. Please publish some real news and make this newswire interesting."
Given that people have posted articles about many subjects, none of which is news, I find this funny...
Anyways, as regards the question of whether any update to a webpage is news, I think its a question of whether it is a sizeable update or not.
In my defence, I would say that the addition of
two new sections to a large and well respected resource *is* news -- and many people would want to hear it. Minor updates are probably not news. And as the FAQ is generally updated once every few months, I hope people will see why I posted.
No objection to such postings, that is until the revolution when all anarchists will be detained by state security, (an bord stasi) especially phuq head, anarcho and fgod.
Exactly my point, anarcho. I also think that web readers are more likely to pay attention to well-spaced announcements than the type of spamming that other sites engage in.
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