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  * Section H: Why do anarchists oppose state socialism?
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  ** H.1 Have anarchists always opposed state socialism?
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  *** H.1.1 What was Bakunin’s critique of Marxism?
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  *** H.1.2 What are the key differences between Anarchists and Marxists?
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  *** H.1.3 Why do anarchists wish to abolish the state “overnight”?
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  *** H.1.4 Do anarchists have “absolutely no idea” of what to put in place of the state?
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  *** H.1.5 Why do anarchists reject “utilising the present state”?
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  *** H.1.6 Why do anarchists try to “build the new world in the shell of the old”?
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  *** H.1.7 Haven’t you read Lenin’s “State and Revolution”?
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  ** H.2 What parts of anarchism do Marxists particularly misrepresent?
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  *** H.2.1 Do anarchists reject defending a revolution?
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  *** H.2.2 Do anarchists reject “class conflict” and “collective struggle”?
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  *** H.2.3 Does anarchism yearn “for what has gone before”?
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  *** H.2.4 Do anarchists think “the state is the main enemy”?
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  *** H.2.5 Do anarchists think “full blown” socialism will be created overnight?
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  *** H.2.6 How do Marxists misrepresent Anarchist ideas on mutual aid?
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  *** H.2.7 Who do anarchists see as their “agents of social change”?
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  *** H.2.8 What is the relationship of anarchism to syndicalism?
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  *** H.2.9 Do anarchists have “liberal” politics?
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  *** H.2.10 Are anarchists against leadership?
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  *** H.2.11 Are anarchists “anti-democratic”?
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  *** H.2.12 Does anarchism survive only in the absence of a strong workers’ movement?
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  *** H.2.13 Do anarchists reject “political” struggles and action?
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  *** H.2.14 Are anarchist organisations “ineffective,” “elitist” or “downright bizarre”?
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  ** H.3 What are the myths of state socialism?
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  *** H.3.1 Do Anarchists and Marxists want the same thing?
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  *** H.3.2 Is Marxism “socialism from below”?
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  *** H.3.3 Is Leninism “socialism from below”?
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  *** H.3.4 Don’t anarchists just quote Marxists selectively?
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  *** H.3.5 Has Marxist appropriation of anarchist ideas changed it?
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  *** H.3.6 Is Marxism the only revolutionary politics which have worked?
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  *** H.3.7 What is wrong with the Marxist theory of the state?
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  *** H.3.8 What is wrong with the Leninist theory of the state?
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  *** H.3.9 Is the state simply an agent of economic power?
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  *** H.3.10 Has Marxism always supported the idea of workers’ councils?
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  *** H.3.11 Does Marxism aim to give power to workers organisations?
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  *** H.3.12 Is big business the precondition for socialism?
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  *** H.3.13 Why is state socialism just state capitalism?
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  *** H.3.14 Don’t Marxists believe in workers’ control?
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  ** H.4 Didn’t Engels refute anarchism in “On Authority”?
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  *** H.4.1 Does organisation imply the end of liberty?
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  *** H.4.2 Does free love show the weakness of Engels’ argument?
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  *** H.4.3 How do anarchists propose to run a factory?
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  *** H.4.4 How does the class struggle refute Engels’ arguments?
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  *** H.4.5 Is the way industry operates “independent of all social organisation”?
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  *** H.4.6 Why does Engels’ “On Authority” harm Marxism?
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  *** H.4.7 Is revolution “the most authoritarian thing there is”?
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  ** H.5 What is vanguardism and why do anarchists reject it?
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  *** H.5.1 Why are vanguard parties anti-socialist?
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  *** H.5.2 Have vanguardist assumptions been validated?
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  *** H.5.3 Why does vanguardism imply party power?
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  *** H.5.4 Did Lenin abandon vanguardism?
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  *** H.5.5 What is “democratic centralism”?
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  *** H.5.6 Why do anarchists oppose “democratic centralism”?
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  *** H.5.7 Is the way revolutionaries organise important?
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  *** H.5.8 Are vanguard parties effective?
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  *** H.5.9 What are vanguard parties effective at?
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  *** H.5.10 Why does “democratic centralism” produce “bureaucratic centralism”?
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  *** H.5.11 Can you provide an example of the negative nature of vanguard parties?
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  *** H.5.12 Surely the Russian Revolution proves that vanguard parties work?
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  ** H.6 Why did the Russian Revolution fail?
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  *** H.6.1 Can objective factors explain the failure of the Russian Revolution?
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  *** H.6.2 Did Bolshevik ideology influence the outcome of the Russian Revolution?
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  *** H.6.3 Were the Russian workers “declassed” and “atomised”?
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