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LENINISM WITHOUT LENIN Aproximaciones Al Leninismo Sin Lenin LENINISM WITHOUT LENIN Aproximaciones al Leninismo sin Lenin By GUSTAVO RODRIGUEZ English Español Confronting the Question of Power, ¿Confrontando la cuestión del Poder o or Promoting the 50th Variant of the programando la quincuagésima vari- Plan to Seize It? ante para tomarlo? Before beginning, I would like to make it clear that I am Ante todo, quiero hacer constar, que escribo estas modestas writing these modest lines with the intention of encourag- líneas con el ánimo de exhortar a la reflexión, más desde la ing reflection, more in the search for the Truth than with búsqueda y el desasosiego que desde el púlpito de la Verdad, de the idea that I am somehow the repository of it. la que no me siento depositario. Dotting the I’s Los puntos sobre las íes The first thing we need to do is to place our subject in the Considero que lo primero que deberíamos hacer, antes de pro- context that gives it its significance: the advance of what I fundizar en el tema que nos ocupa, es ubicar el contexto en el que call “Anarcho”-Bolshevism. éste cobra significado: la avanzada del “anarco”-bolchevismo. This offensive, which has developed over the last decade, Esta ofensiva, que lleva más de una década materializándose, has now conquered many anarchist organizations, taking copando organizaciones anarquistas, adueñándose del cadáver over the corpse of anarcho-syndicalism and appropriating anarco-sindicalista, apropiándose de publicaciones, ateneos, various publications, publishing houses, libraries, social bibliotecas, centro sociales, okupaciones, infoshops, editoriales centers, squats, infoshops, editorials, and initials (often y siglas (otrora vinculadas a luchas históricas del difunto linked with historic struggles of the now defunct workers movimiento obrero), puede constatarse a través de artículos, movement). This process can be traced through many arti- ponencias, reflexiones y comunicados, en infinidad de publica- 42 Leninism | Leninismo English Español cles, reflections, and communiques in an infinite number of ciones creadas para la ocasión y, en diferentes portales elec- publications created for the occasion and on different web- trónicos como Anarkismo.net, A-Info, La Haine, Clajadep, sites, such as Anarkismo,net., A-Info, La Haine, Clajadep, Kaos, entre otros. and Kaos, among others. Desde luego, para concretar dicha “avanzada”, los “anar- In order to promote their advance, the “Anarcho”-Bolsheviks co”-bolcheviques han tenido que echar a andar su propio have had to set in motion their own Frankenstein, in effect, Frankenstein, resucitando “desviaciones” del proyecto reviving past “deviations” of the anarchist project. Specifically, anárquico, propias de ese caminar sin dogma que nos car- we can identify the party-ist Platform of Nestor Makhno (a acteriza, a golpe de ensayo y error y, donde, perfectamente, leader of partisan bands that fought against both the podemos ubicar a La Plataforma partidista de Mackno o, Bolsheviks and the White counterrevolutionaries during the al Partido Liberal Mexicano de los hermanos Flores Civil War in Russia after Magón. Lamentables the Bolshevik Revolution “ensayos” que no of 1917), and the Mexican podemos descontextu- Liberal Party of the Flores alizar y que, indis- Magón brothers. These cutiblemente, were lamentable attempts respondían a las influ- to build anarchist parties encias y confusiones de that we cannot fully ana- su época y, a las necesi- lyze here, but which were dades y demandas de responses to the specific ese particular contexto influences of their epoch histórico. Sin embargo, and to the needs and tampoco se puede demands of the historical obviar que en su propio context in which they tiempo y espacio fueron found themselves. refutados estos tristes Nevertheless, we should “tanteos” desvia- not hide the fact that cionistas y recibieron these projects were refut- duras críticas de parte ed at the time, subjected de los cómplices de la to tough critiques on the Regis Debray Anarquía. part of the partisans of Anarchy. Today, however, the “Anarcho”-Bolsheviks don’t Hoy, los “anarco”-bolcheviques no podían presentarse como lo present themselves as they really are, and for good reason. In que son. No podían (menos a estas alturas del partido) llegar e the past, they were not able to impose explicitly Leninist the- imponer las tesis leninistas. No podían volver a confundir con ses on the anarchist movement: They were not able to con- El Estado y la Revolución. No podían revendernos la fuse people with (Lenin’s) The State and Revolution;nor “Revolución” cubana, ni la joda sandinista ni el “foquismo” ni could they sell the Cuban “Revolution” as anarchist, nor the la “guerra popular prolongada” ni el “necesario” frente popular, experience of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, nor the NO PODÍAN Y NO PUEDEN. Pero, camuflando al leninismo “Foquismo” of Che Guevara and Regis Debray, nor the con nuevos ropajes “libertarios” han ido consolidando su ofen- “Prolonged People’s War” of Chairman Mao, nor the “necessi- siva. Con esa estrategia van logrado articular sinuosamente una ty" of the Popular Front. They could not do this openly, and red internacional con el único y decidido objetivo de construir they cannot do so today. But, by camouflaging Leninism in “Nuestro Partido”.1 “libertarian” clothes, they have been following essentially the 43 The Utopian English Español same path, pursuing their offensive and consolidating their En Estados Unidos y Canadá, los primeros pasos para la con- gains. With this strategy, they are developing an international strucción de “Nuestro Partido”,datan del verano de 1999, año en network with the sole and decided purpose of constructing que comienzan a gestarse incipientes coordinaciones y difusas what they call “Our Party.”1 redes regionales, específicamente en el área de Québec y Nueva Inglaterra, en un intento de agrupación “bi-nacional” (Canadá- In the United States and Canada, the first steps in the con- EE.UU) motivados por “la insatisfacción mutua ante el estado struction of “Our Party” date back to the summer of 1999, del movimiento anarquista a ambos lados de la frontera “2 y, a during which an initial level of regional coordination and redactarse los borradores iniciales de lo que para abril de 2002, diffuse regional networks, specifically in Quebec and durante el congreso realizado en la ciudad de Boston, MA, se New England, began to develop. These efforts were directed diera a conocer oficialmente como Federación Anarco- toward promoting a “bi-national” regroupment, motivated Comunista del Noreste (NEFAC, por sus siglas en inglés); funda- by the “mutual dissatis- da en “los principios faction with the state of plataformistas de unidad the anarchist move- teórica, unidad táctica, dis- ment on both sides of ciplina, responsabilidad the border,”2 and found colectiva y democracia fruition in April 2002, interna “; a imagen y seme- in the formation, dur- janza del Workers Solidarity ing a congress held in Movement de Irlanda; orga- Boston, of the nización neo-plataformista Northeast Federation of con sede en Dublín, con casi Anarcho-Communists 25 años de existencia. (NEFAC). This organi- zation was founded on Curiosamente, las manio- the “platformist princi- bras tácticas del neo- ples of theoretical and plataformismo irlandés, en tactical unity, disci- Ricardo (left) and Enrique Flores Magón su afán de expansionismo pline, collective respon- geográfico—a la vieja usan- sibility, and internal za bolchevique—han man- democracy,” and modeled after the Workers Solidarity tenido una decidida presencia a lo largo de Norteamérica. Movement of Ireland, a platformist organization, based in Indiscutibles ejemplos son los infructuosos intentos de “con- Dublin, that has been in existence for almost 25 years. trol” en el Encuentro Anarquista de la Ciudad de México y, la reunión internacional denominada Anarkogaláctica, realizada The tactical maneuvers of the Irish neo-platformists, in en la ciudad de San Cristóbal de las Casas, en el estado de their concern for geographic expansion, have been felt Chiapas, México; ambos celebrados en julio del pasado año throughout North America. Some examples are their 2007 y, el forzado Encuentro Nacional Anarquista, efectuado unsuccessful attempt to assert control over the Anarchist recientemente en la ciudad de Guadalajara, a modo de prolon- Encounter in Mexico City; the international meeting, titled gación del Encuentro Anarquista de la Ciudad de México, con Anarkogaláctica, in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas in la acelerada intención de sacarse de la manga una organización the state of Chiapas, both held in July 2007; and the nacional “anarquista” de clara tendencia neo-plataformista. National Anarchist Encounter, held recently in the city of Guadalajara, promoted as a continuation of the Anarchist Así mismo, encaja en esta estrategia de “Unidad” la reciente Encounter in Mexico City, but with the intention of gira de charlas y entrevistas de Andrew Flood3, por cuarenta y pulling out of the hat a national “anarchist” organization cinco ciudades estadounidenses, donde contacto a grupos, 44 Leninism | Leninismo English Español of clear neo-platformist tendency. Also part of this “Unity” colectivos e individuos anarquistas a quienes entrevistó con la strategy was the recent tour of talks and interviews on the intención de dibujar un “mapa” de tendencias al interior del part of Andrew Flood.3 This took him to 45 cities in the denominado “movimiento” anarquista norteamericano. United States, where he made contact with various anar- Desde luego, es obligatorio hacer las distinciones pertinentes chist groups, collectives, and individuals, with the goal of entre los eventos realizados en México y la gira de charlas en drawing up a “map” of the different tendencies within the EE.UU. Si bien, en el Encuentro Anarquista de la Ciudad de North American anarchist movement. México, solamente se hizo presente el discurso neo- plataformista a través de la ponencia de José Antonio Gutiérrez, It is necessary to distinguish between the events that took a nombre del Workers Solidarity Movement de Irlanda y la place in Mexico and Organización Comunista the speaking tour in Libertaria de Chile, inten- the US.
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