Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Future of Libertarian Socialism

The two branches of socialism, those who propose the establishment of a worker's state and those who advocate the negation by workers of the state, diverged irreconcilably in the late 19th century. By the mid-20th century, the libertarian branch of socialism seemed to have fizzled out with the apparent success of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in Russia and China. Now that this authoritarian branch of socialism has been discredited, what is the future of the libertarian view of socialism? Is the future of socialism to be only to work within the bourgeoise state for minor concessions? If socialism's revolutionary nature is to return, it can only be libertarian in nature! Humanity has seen the failure of the proletarian state. The future of the struggle against bourgeoise oppression lies not with the acquisition of power by the proletariat, but with their total negation of the state.

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