#luigi fabbri

[anarchistin]

Of course, we can only subscribe to the entire first part of the book, which brings to light all the bourgeois and democratic hypocrisy, according to which the State would be the representative of the interests of all citizens, while in reality it is a weapon of the ruling class for the exploitation of the oppressed classes.

But then Lenin falls into the Marxist (or rather Engelsian) error that the proletariat, by seizing state authority and making the means of production the property of the State, succeeds in making the state itself disappear.

If the State also becomes the property owner, we will have state capitalism, not socialism, let alone state abolition or anarchy!

It would be a curious system to abolish an organism by multiplying its functions and giving it new means of power!

— Luigi Fabbri, State and Revolution (On Lenin's Book)

[cronopiosypajaros]

La violencia es un medio que asume el carácter de la finalidad en la cual es adoptada, de la forma cómo es empleada y de las personas que de ella se sirven. Es un acto de autoridad cuando se adopta para imponer a los demás una conducta al paladar del que manda, cuando es emanación gubernamental o patronal y sirve para mantener en la esclavitud de los súbditos, para hacer obedecer a la fuerza. Es al contrario violencia libertaria, es decir, un acto de libertad y liberación, cuando es empleada contra el que manda por el que no quiere obedecer ya; cuando está dirigida a impedir, disminuir o destruir una esclavitud cualquiera, individual o colectiva, económica o política, y es adoptada por los oprimidos directamente, individuos o pueblos o clases, contra el gobierno y las clases dominantes.

“El concepto anarquista de la revolución” - Luigi Fabbri.

[forbidden-sorcery]

Any governing body is an impediment to the real organisation of the broad masses, the majority. Where a government exists, then the only really organised people are the minority that make up the government; and, this notwithstanding, if the masses do organise, they do so against it, outside it, or at the very least, independently of it. In ossifying into a government, the revolution as such would fall apart, on account of its awarding that government the monopoly of organisation and of the means of struggle.

Luigi Fabbri

[anarchistin]

The intolerance of many socialists, even revolutionary ones, in the face of anarchism largely depends on their absolute ignorance of the ideas, aims, and methods of anarchists.

It is astounding to note how some of the most intelligent people, of a vast political and economic culture, among the socialists, when it comes to anarchy, can say nothing but the usual senseless clichés spread by the worst bourgeois press: the most outlandish and defamatory statements, the most foolish interpretations.

Luigi Fabbri, The Anarchist Concept of the Revolution

[forbidden-sorcery]

Capitalism would not cease to be, merely by changing from private to “state capitalism.” In such a case the state would have achieved not expropriation but appropriation. A multitude of bosses would give way to a single boss, the government, which would be a more powerful boss because in addition to having unlimited wealth it would have on its side the armed force with which to bend the proletariat to its will. And the proletariat, in the factories and fields, would still be wage slaves, that is, exploited and oppressed. And conversely, the state, which is no abstraction, but rather an organism created by men, would be the organised ensemble of all the rulers and bosses of tomorrow—who would have no problem in finding some sanction for their rule in a new legality based more or less on elections or a parliament.

Luigi Fabbri

[forbidden-sorcery]

Marx was in error in thinking that once classes had been abolished the state would die a natural death, as if through lack of nourishment. The state will not die away unless it is deliberately destroyed, just as capitalism will not cease to exist unless it is put to death through expropriation. Should a state be left standing, it will create a new ruling class about itself, that is, if it chooses not to make its peace with the old one. In short, class divisions will persist and classes will never be finally abolished as long as the state remains.

Luigi Fabbri

[forbidden-sorcery]

The dichotomy is not between anarchy and a more or less “scientific” communism, but rather between authoritarian or state communism, rushing headlong towards a despotic dictatorship, and anarchist or anti-state communism, with its libertarian vision of revolution. If one has to talk about contradiction in terms, it must be not between the term communism and the term anarchy, which are so compatible that the one is not possible in the absence of the other, but rather between communism and state. Where there is state or government, no communism is possible. At least, it is so difficult to reconcile them, and so demanding of the sacrifice of all human freedom and dignity, that one can surmise that it is impossible when today the spirit of revolt, autonomy and initiative is so widespread among the masses, hungering not only for bread but also for freedom.

Luigi Fabbri

[forbidden-sorcery]

One moves towards the abolition of capitalism by expropriating the capitalists for the benefit of all, not by creating an even worse capitalism in state capitalism. Progress towards the abolition of the state is made by fighting it as long as it survives, undermining it more and more, stripping it so far as is possible of authority and prestige, weakening it and removing from it as many social functions as the working people have equipped themselves to perform on their own through their revolutionary or class organisation—and not, as authoritarian communists claim, by building on the ruins of the bourgeois state another even stronger state with more functions and added power.

Luigi Fabbri