Platformism

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Platformism is a term for a special anarchist organization that emerged as a result of the Machno movement . It was shaped by Russian exiles in Paris in 1926.

A platformist organization has a common revolutionary program and a common revolutionary strategy. Members must agree to voluntary self-discipline . A platform organization is a federation based on direct democracy. All political initiatives and activities come from below. Members can have their own ideas and points of criticism regarding all resolutions and tactics. However, if you spread these outside of the organization, you need to make it clear that these are your own ideas and not the organization's.

history

The idea of ​​platformism arose out of the need to be able to offer outsiders a clear profile of the anarchist organization without giving up the traditional basic principles of anarchy self-determination , pluralism and direct democracy and distinguishing oneself from communist parties, in which the leadership defines the party line that the Members need to join. The platform emerged from the experiences of the Russian anarchists in the October Revolution of 1917, which ultimately led to the victory of the Bolshevik party dictatorship instead of the self-management of the workers and farm workers. The platform tried to explain this defeat to the anarchist movement during the Russian Revolution. As a controversial pamphlet, the platform published praise and criticism from anarchists worldwide. The organizational platform of the libertarian communists was written in 1926 by the Dielo Trouda group (German cause of workers ), a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France. The pamphlet is an analysis of the basic anarchist belief, the idea of ​​an anarchist society and the recommendations on how an anarchist organization should be structured. The four main principles by which an anarchist organization should operate according to the platform are ideological unity, tactical unity, collective action and discipline, and federalism .

The platform today

Although platformism got off to a difficult start, as many well-known anarchists referred to it as an attempt to “ Bolshevise ” anarchism and organize it in a party-like manner, there are still some groups today that refer to this anarchist current. Platformist groups include Workers Solidarity Movement in Ireland , Common Struggle in the USA and Canada , AWSM (Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement) in New Zealand , OCL (Organización Comunista Libertaria) in Chile , OAE in Greece , AKI in Turkey , OSL (Organización Socialista Libertaria) in Argentina , FDCA (Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici) in Italy , Coletivo pró Organização Anarquista em Goiás in Brazil , Grupo Qhispikay Llaqta in Peru , ACL (Alianza Comunista Libertaria) in Mexico and ZACF (Zabalaza anarchist Communist Federation) in South Africa . In 2018, the platform for the German-speaking area was founded.

literature

  • Lucien van der Walt, Michael Schmidt: Black Flame. Revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism . 1st edition. Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89401-783-5 , pp. 311-332 (English: Black Flame. The revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism . Translated by Andreas G. Förster, Holger Marcks).
  • NEFAC: The question of revolutionary anarchist organization. A NEFAC position paper . In: Gabriel Kuhn (Ed.): ›New Anarchism‹ in the USA. Seattle and the aftermath . 1st edition. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-474-8 , pp. 236-243 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian: "We have the right to build a third federation." ⋆ Direct action. In: direkteaktion.org. February 9, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Förster in the translator database at the Association of German-Language Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, 2019