#platformism

[mother-anarchy-offical]

What type of anarchist are you?

Anarcho Communist / Syndicalist

Platformist

Eco - Anarchist

Anarcho Primitivist

Anarcha Feminist / Queer

Anarcho Mutualist

Anarcho Individualist

Egoist

Religious Anarchist (justifying anarchism through scripture and belief)

Anarchist, no prefixes no suffixes, just anarchist

Other (say in comments)

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Voting ended onJun 27, 2025

[maxwell-rayner]

Platformism is such a wonderfully Nestor Makhno ideology. Like given all of his actions in the black army it makes sense that it would be his vision of what anarchism ought to be. All of the authoritarian tendencies he had are well reflected in the ideological undercurrents of platformism.

This is not to say that it is a useless ideology, rather that I find it funny how much the ideology has father Makhno’s fingerprints all over it.

[hellyeahanarchistposters]

‘Long live the struggle of the people against racism and all forms of oppression!’

[probablyasocialecologist]

The conquest of power by the social democratic parties through parliamentary methods in the framework of the present system will not further the emancipation of labour one little bit for the simple reason that real power, and thus real authority, will remain with the bourgeoisie, which has full control of the country's economy and politics. The role of the socialist authorities will in that case be confined to reforms, to improving that same bourgeois system.

Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists

[meatthawsmoth]

In reading the introduction to the Platform, it is quite evident that the writers saw the failure of anarchists on essentially political terms. The problem, as they saw it, was that anarchists lacked a unified program to offer the proletarian struggle, a unified theory and practice for guiding the class struggle in the direction of libertarian communism. What the original platformists did not seem to realize is that by proposing the question in these terms, they do not escape the logic of authoritarian and statist revolutionaries. They are still posing the question of revolutionary effectiveness in terms of a power/counterpower struggle, rather than in terms of the destruction of all institutional power. For all practical intents and purposes the "General Union of Anarchists" that they called for has the function of a revolutionary PARTY, with all that demands. It is the source of the revolutionary consciousness of the workers and peasants. It is to prepare them for the social revolution. It is to educate them and to provide a sort of leadership. By considering the problem in essential political terms, the comrades of Dielo Trouda drift[ed] in a Leninist logic, not necessarily in terms of authoritarianism, but certainly in terms of the idea of the special organization as a consciousness outside of the class.

“How Anarchist is the Platform?”

[catsnuggler]

Looking for Anarchists to Follow

Looking for anarchists who:

are communist (I never was much for collectivism and mutualism tbh, I’m more of a Kropotkin kind of guy, but I’ll follow those who are anyway)

read Marxists as well

are pro-organization, instead of just fucking off into the woods individually and not being able to do a damn thing if you even manage to survive

are into dual power

are into permaculture

disagree with Leninists and other Marxists on the state, but at the same time recognize the importance of not dividing the left when fucking /f/a/s/h/ are making a resurgence for fuck’s sake

are of any faith, or none at all, so long as they are respectful.

Not looking for:

“anarcho”-capitalists

“national” anarchists

“anarcho”-primitivists

post-left anarchists

anti-semites

islamophobes

any who harass others based on religion, creed, race, ethnicity, nationality and/or national origin, sexuality, sex(es)*, gender/s*, disability/ies - you get the drill.

liberals. I mean it.

*Yes, I know there’s much debate over what these words mean, whether they are synonymous, the problem of transphobes asking what someone’s “sex” is to ask, in an inherently delegitimizing way, “So what are you really?”. I just used both words so there wouldn’t be any loopholes wrt sex and/or gender in what I said. The crux is: don’t discriminate against transgender people (of any gender; note my use of “any” rather than “both”) and intersex people.

[apocalyptic-mailman]

We as anarchists need to start getting organized. Like, a lot of us are involved in various disparate groups (FNB, antifa, a local housing collective, a clinic or safe injection site, a DIY space, Black Rose, the IWW, maybe a left-wing gun club), but I feel like at this point we really need to coalesce into a more cohesive group. We need to federate under one name, even as our groups maintain their autonomy and new ones spring up, if we’re going to present an effective force for anarchism.

Like, the anarchists in Spain were all CNT-FAI, the anarchists in Ukraine were all Black Army, the anarchists in Chiapas were all EZLN, and the anarchists in Rojava are all YPG. We (western anarchists) need to be organizing similarly.