We present to you a large article by Russian social revolutionary anarchists from the “People’s Self-Defense” (Narodnaya Samooborona) movement. This article is a summary of many texts of People’s Self-Defense, trying to adapt the ideas of anarchism to the 21st century. The article describes the structure of this world, the ways of changing it, the strategy and tactics of revolutionary anarchists, and also tries to describe the possible contours of anarchist society in the conditions of the 21st century. We hope the article will help to understand the ideas and methods of social revolutionary anarchists both to people who are only interested in anarchism and to those who are in search for answers to the questions that our time poses to anarchism.
“People’s Self-Defense” (Narodnaya Samooborona) is the largest
anarchist movement in Russia in the past decade. Movement methods
combined both political actionism and social struggle. For example,
People’s Self-Defense brought into Russian anarchism areas such as the
fight against banditry and dishonest employers through the direct
action. People’s Self-Defense opposed itself to the “reformist” wing of
the anarchist movement, and propagandized the revolutionary
transformation of society and direct action as a way to resolve social
conflicts.
After the rapid growth of the movement and a series of major
political campaigns in 2017-2018, People’s Self-Defense was subjected to
massive repression. Security officials have linked the movement with
all the major actions of the anarchists in recent years, including the
explosion of the FSB reception in Arkhangelsk by 17-year-old anarchist
Mikhail Zhlobitsky in the fall of 2018. In 2018-2019, special services
conducted hundreds of searches across the country, many participants and
supporters of the movement were forced to leave Russia or were tortured
and prosecuted. At the moment, the harassment of the movement by the
security services continues. So, in the framework of the criminal case
against the mathematician Azat Miftakhov, suspected of participation in
the movement, a list was published containing about a hundred potential
participants in the movement. There are cases when the police took
fingerprints from street agitation posters in order to establish the
movements supporters.
At the moment, the work of the organization in Russia is
paralyzed by repressions, but the experience of the movement and
theoretical developments may be of interest for discussion.
We really hope for constructive criticism, discussion and joint
improvement of the text. We are ready to provide a platform for such
constructive criticism. For all questions, please contact
media_ns@riseup.net or in our telegramm chat @RebelWords.
https://naroborona.info/2020/03/12/anarchy-in-the-...
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