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Makhno's Platformism came to mind, and it was convincing enough for an armed guerrilla to: - get rid of Germany after Lenin's betrayal - Beat Russian loyalist
by orwin 2y ago
Makhno's Platformism came to mind, and it was convincing enough for an armed guerrilla to:
- get rid of Germany after Lenin's betrayal
- Beat Russian loyalist, the white Army (I want to say Denikine but it could be a man with a name in -ov like Shalov), inflicting twice as Manu casualties
- kept Lenin's army (lead by Trotsky? I think, but I might have it mixed up with Kronstad) in check for years as bullets and men got rarer, until defeat.
- lukan 2y agoYes, I heard about them, but I also heard that their organisation was not at all free of hierachies, so many anarchists do not consider them anarchists. They were people with weapons - taking what they needed for their fight. So some claim they were democratically legitimized, but the farms where they just took the horses and food from, could not really disagree - as the machnoists had the weapons. And they used it. But most details seems to have been lost and it is hard getting accurate accounts. Those I read, were quite bloody and brutal. So all in all probably less brutal then the accounts of the white and red army, but not really up to the standards of "voluntarily" and "equality" like anarchisms wants to be.