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Bookchin talking about his first decade of political activism as a Stalinist.

The big thing that Bookchin gets wrong is he did not really deal fairly with the council communists or post-war councilist Marxists like CLR James, probably due to experiencing 'Marxism' as a Stalinist. Although this also mirrors his later rejection of anarchism too.
You can see this in this exchange with Jeremy Brecher (this is the end of the exchange but Brecher's frustration here is what I'm getting at).

libcom.org/library/jeremy…
Some siloar critiques are made by Chuck Morse who was very close to Bookchin in Vermont.

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"First off, let me state that I’m not an anarchist. Yet, a lot of what you’ll read here is gonna look a whole lot like anarchism!" ex Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member, Russell Maroon Shoatz.

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Only took a day for Tory MPs to pivot from decrying slaver statue removal to calling for grave desecration.

Smith goes straight in for the 'over 100 million' victims of communism line, a favourite refrain of the far right. The problem is this number has been criticised as massively inflated even by authors featured in the book it comes from, the Black Book of Communism.
The Black Book of communism was released in 1997 on the 80th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Twelve historians contributed, though the bulk of the writing was by Nicolas Werth on the USSR. The book was prefaced and titled by Stephanie Courtois without input from the rest.
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Always fun when people take an idea put forward by multiple 19th century anarchist thinkers and Marx, the Paris Commune, the IWW, the black liberation movement, entire Mexican towns, and try to associate it with teenage stoners.

"The centralized state power, with its ubiquitous organs of standing army, police, bureaucracy, clergy, and judicature..originates from the days of absolute monarchy, serving nascent middle class society as a mighty weapon in its struggle against feudalism."
"Having once got rid of the standing army and the police – the physical force elements of the old government – the Commune was anxious to [disestablish and disendow the churches]" - Marx, Civil War in France, 1871
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The UK government has 'launched' a test and trace system this week, which is being used as the justification to re-open non-essential shops and send reception, year 1 and year 6 children back to school. It's also relaxed some curfew restrictions at the same time.
Financial support to people unable to work due to lockdown has been limited to 80% payments via employers through the furlough scheme, and 80% payments to (some) self-employed people.
With test and trace, any one in contact with someone who tests positive for Covid-19 (less than 2 metres for 15 minutes or more) is expected to self-isolate for fourteen days. This means if you come off furlough, go into work in a shop, then have to self-isolate, you get nothing.
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