An Anarchist FAQ updated

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday February 05, 2002 11:27 by anarcho

An Anarchist FAQ has been updated to include an indepth analysis of the Makhnovist movement, an anarchist peasant army active in the Ukraine during the Russian Revolution.

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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 the
present system and what they aim to replace it with.

It has been updated on February 5th to mark the birth
of German anarchist Johann Most.

Initially a social democrat, he was elected to the Reichstag
from 1874 to 1878. He was forced into exile for his
writings against the Kaiser and clergy and arrived in
London in 1878. There he published the newspaper
"Freiheit" (Freedom). An article celebrating the assassination
of Tsar Alexander II landed him in jail for 16 months.

Upon release Most went to the United States in 1882 and
quickly became an anarchist. He continued to publish
"Freiheit" and went on lecturing tours preaching social
revolution and supporting propaganda by the deed. After
the Haymarket events of 1886, Most shifted from his advocay
of violence towards anarcho-syndicalism. "Freiheit" remained
the focus for the rest of his life (he died in 1906). He remained
a famed orator for his "incendiary speeches" and once
remarked with enthusiasm:

"Tyrants and the bourgeoisie hate me. I hate tyrants and the
bourgeoisie. Out mutual hatred is my pride and joy."

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So Whats New in the FAQ? -- version 9.5

Section H.6
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secH6.html

New section on the Makhnovist movement. The
Makhnovist movement was an anarchist influenced
peasant partisan army which fought in the Ukraine
for working class freedom and autonomy against the
tyrannts of the right and left. The Makhnovists
show that there was a viable alternative to the
authoritarianism of the Bolsheviks and that Bolshevik
ideology played a key role in the degeneration of the
revolution. This section summarises the military
history of the movement, its constructive social ideas
and its attempts to apply them. In addition it refutes
common allegations against the Makhnovists (such
as they were anti-Semitic, worked with the Whites,
were Nationalists, anti-town and so on).

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