Ukrainian anarchists le epicly trolled

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Today in Labor History June 4, 1919: Trotsky banned the 4th Ukrainian Congress of Free Soviets with his Order #1824. He also sent troops to destroy the Rosa Luxemburg Commune near Provkovski, and declared the Ukrainian anarchist insurgent Nestor Makhno an outlaw. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno) lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society, defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area, refusing to pay rent to the landowners and seizing the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and sharing them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

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Hoje passei por uma publicação de uma organização militante anarquista revolucionária na qual havia uma tirinha em que Nestor Makhno voltaria à vida magicamente no Brasil e sentiria raiva do anarquista "pequeno-burguês".
A caricatura desse pequeno-burguês era usar um boné da USP, usar gênero neutro e falar em veganismo. Depois defendia Lula.
A moral da história é que o verdadeiro militantismo deve estar com o povo e não se deixar levar pelas ideologias burguesas...

Entendo essa tirinha como um desserviço inacreditável. Serve para que as poucas pessoas que já consomem esse conteúdo possam acariciar seus egos na sua certeza de estarem entre os "bons" militantes. É um ato de identitarismo, ironicamente.
E, também, para afastar as pessoas que poderiam se interessar em somar com essa organização mas que não vão abrir mão das outras lutas.

Eu sinto dizer, mas o povão não é anarquista, não é revolucionário e é muito mais "normal" (ou "popular") ir para universidade do que militar em organização revolucionária.

Por outro lado, as pautas que não a classe - o antipatriarcado, anti-heteronormatividade e também o antiespecismo - não são menos importantes do que a questão de classe e há muita gente de classes populares que entendem isso e lutam contra essas opressões também. Insinuando que essas lutas são elitistas se silencia a luta dessas pessoas - veganas de classe trabalhadora, LGBTQIA+ de classe trabalhadora. E se desestimula que essas pessoas se interessem em articular suas lutas com as lutas classistas.

E também mostra que esse entendimento de que "classe é tudo" também não consegue entender que os animais são parte da classe trabalhadora, também são explorados. Pelo que parece, também não entendem a gravidade da questão ambiental - e por consequência também não entendem a questão indígena.

Não é por aí. Popularizar a luta significa articular as diferentes pautas.

Melhorem.

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Today In Labor History April 9, 1918: Members of the anarchist Black Guards confiscated the car of the American ambassador to Russia in Moscow, demanding the release of prisoners in the US. The Black Guards were armed groups of workers that formed after the February Revolution. They were the main military wing of the anarchists. The first Black Guards were created in Ukraine by Maria Nikiforova (Marusia), an anarchist terrorist from the age of 16, who eventually became Deputy leader of the Oleksandrivsk Revolutionary committee. She created the Black Guards to force land reform and redistribution. Similar cells were later created by Nestor Makhno, and she later participated in the anarchist free state of Makhnovia. The last Black Guards were quashed by the Cheka, under orders from Trotsky, on April 11-12, 1918.

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Today in Labor History March 22, 1910: Nestor Makhno was illegally sentenced to death, along with his comrades, for a series of bank robberies and other expropriations to raise money for their anarchist propaganda. The death sentence was illegal because they had not killed anyone. Due to the fact that he was only 17 at the time, his sentence was commuted to a life in prison. However, they released him during the 1917 Revolution. While in prison, he contracted typhoid fever and, later, tuberculosis.

Makhno was born in Huliaipole, southern Ukraine. His parents were peasants and extremely poor, and he was forced to start working at the age of ten. When the 1905 revolution occurred, at the age of 16, he joined a local anarchist group, the Union of Poor Peasants, which initiated a campaign of “Black Terror” against the wealthy landlords and local Tsarist police, ultimately leading to his arrest in 1910. After his release from prison, he returned to Huliaipole to continue his anarchist organizing, leading ultimately to anarchist and peasant control of Huliaipole's Public Committee, the local organ of the Provisional Government. As a union leader, he led a series of worker strikes against the employers resulting, ultimately, in total workers' control over all industry in the Huliaipole region.

The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU), an anarchist peasant army led by Nestor Makhno, created a stateless libertarian communist society known as the Free Territory, or Makhnovshchina, in south-eastern Ukraine. The autonomous region, which lasted from 1917-1921, had an influence that extended over nearly one-third of Ukraine. The 7 million people who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State. They implemented a system of common land ownership among the peasantry and established hospitals, schools and children’s communes. In 1920, the Bolsheviks began attacking Makhnovshchina, after the Maknovists had defeated White Army, their common enemy. But many soldiers in the Red Army defected and joined the RIAU in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviks ultimately crushed Makhnovshchina in 1921. Nester Makhno barely escaped. He died in exile in Paris, July 25, 1934.

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"Baba, what a fuzzy mustache you have!"

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