ANARCHIST THEORY with Wojak - 1907 Anarchist Congress (Monatte vs Malatesta)
Channel: Infantile Disorder
Date: 2018-04-18

[English subtitles]

After the Charter of Amiens, the revolutionary factions started to question the influence of Anarchism and Marxism on syndicalism. For some, syndicalism was self-sufficient, a new school of thought that would lead to the communist society. In the 1907 Anarchist Congress this issue was put forward by Pierre Monatte, which was criticized by Malatesta, the anarchist communist who had a different idea. For Malatesta syndicalism was just a way for anarchists to expose their ideas to the masses and fortify the specific anarchist organizations or the anarchist party.
This debate was also important and would determine the future issues around anarcho-syndicalism.

##sorry for my bad english ;-;##


Sources:
Charter of Amiens: https://www.marxists.org/history/france/cgt/charter-amiens.htm
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/freedom-ed-the-international-anarchist-congress (this source didn’t translate the entire Monatte vs Malatesta speech)
More on that debate: https://www.anarkismo.net/article/6605
Anarchist party: https://www.marxists.org/portugues/malatesta/1897/07/11.htm (this one is in Portuguese, I couldn’t find any English translation)
And this book: "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism"
Althusser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feepQg_Dx7U

QUOTE
«After the general strike we must follow, without losing any time, a armed insurrection that can't come from the workers organizations, or even the revolutionary parties, but from the cooperation between the army and the autonomous civilian groups.» Neno Vasco (1878-1920)