Documenta la teoría e ideas anarquistas y presenta argumentos a favor del anarquismo. Explora debates internos del movimiento anarquista, y rebate argumentos comunes contra el anarquismo.
Empezó como una crítica al anarcocapitalismo, para cuando se publicó oficialmente se había convertido en una introducción general al anarquismo.
Desde alarbarricadas.org hace tiempo que se viene tratando de ayudar en la difusión de las Preguntas Frecuentes promocionando su traducción del inglés al castellano.
Han habido varios intentos de coordinar esta traducción
[http:/ /www.alasbarricadas.org/forums/viewtopic ... 77&start=0,
http:/ /www.alasbarricadas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=7733].
A través del ateneo [http:/ /www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/in ... C3%8Dndice] se puede consultar lo que hay hasta ahora, pero queda mucho por hacer.
Por eso, volvemos a la carga en otro intento de impulsar la traducción de las FAQ, y pedimos la colaboración de aquellxs que quieran y puedan.
Se irá colocando poco a poco las secciones que faltan. Aunque sea un párrafo se agradecerá.
En general falta esto:
Sección A:
A.3.8 What is "anarchism without adjectives"?
A.3.9 What is anarcho-primitivism?
Sección B:
B.2.3 How does the ruling class maintain control of the state?
B.2.4 How does state centralisation affect freedom?
B.2.5 Who benefits from centralisation?
B.2.6 Can the state be an independent power within society?
B.3 Why are anarchists against private property?
B.3.1 What is the difference between private property and possession?
B.3.2 What kinds of private property does the state protect?
B.3.3 Why is private property exploitative?
B.3.4 Can private property be justified?
B.3.5 Is state owned property different from private property?
B.4 How does capitalism affect liberty?
B.4.1 Is capitalism based on freedom?
B.4.2 Is capitalism based on self-ownership?
B.4.3 But no one forces you to work for them!
B.4.4 But what about periods of high demand for labour?
B.4.5 But I want to be "left alone"!
B.5 Is capitalism empowering and based on human action?
B.6 But won't decisions made by individuals with their own money be the best?
B.7 What classes exist within modern society?
B.7.1 But do classes actually exist?
B.7.2 Does social mobility make up for class inequality?
B.7.3 Why is the existence of classes denied?
B.7.4 What do anarchists mean by "class consciousness"?
Sección C:
C.9.4 Is unemployment voluntary?
C.10 Is "free market" capitalism the best way to reduce poverty?
C.10.1 Hasn't neo-liberalism benefited the world's poor?
C.10.2 Does "free trade" benefit everyone?
C.10.3 Does "free market" capitalism benefit everyone, especially working class people?
C.10.4 Does growth automatically mean people are better off?
C.11.1 Who benefited from Chile's experiment?
C.11.2 What about Chile's economic growth and low inflation?
C.11.3 Did neo-liberal Chile confirm capitalist economics?
C.12 Doesn't Hong Kong show the potentials of "free market" capitalism?
Sección D: ya encargada.
Seción E (de momento propuestas en este hilo http://www.alasbarricadas.org/forums/vi ... 9&start=45)
E.2 What do eco-anarchists propose instead of capitalism?
E.3 Can private property rights protect the environment?
E.3.1 Will privatising nature save it?
E.3.2 How does economic power contribute to the ecological crisis?
E.3.3 Can capitalism's focus on short-term profitability deal with the ecological crisis?
E.4 Can laissez-faire capitalism protect the environment?
E.4.1 Will laissez-faire capitalism actually end pollution?
E.4.2 Can laissez-faire wilderness survive under capitalism?
E.5 Can ethical consumerism stop the ecological crisis?
E.6 What is the population myth?
Sección F:
F.4 What is the right-"libertarian" position on private property?
F.4.1 What is wrong with a "homesteading" theory of property?
F.5 Will privatising "the commons" increase liberty?
F.6 Is "anarcho" capitalism against the state?
F.6.1 What's wrong with this "free market" justice?
F.6.2 What are the social consequences of such a system?
F.6.3 But surely Market Forces will stop abuse by the rich?
F.6.4 Why are these "defence associations" states?
F.7 How does the history of "anarcho"-capitalism show that it is not anarchist?
F.7.1 Are competing governments anarchism?
F.7.2 Is government compatible with anarchism?
F.7.3 Can there be a "right-wing" anarchism?
F.8 What role did the state take in the creation of capitalism?
F.8.1 What social forces lay behind the rise of capitalism?
F.8.2 What was the social context of the statement "laissez-faire"?
F.8.3 What other forms did state intervention in creating capitalism take?
F.8.4 Aren't the enclosures a socialist myth?
F.8.5 What about the lack of enclosures in the Americas?
F.8.6 How did working people view the rise of capitalism?
Sección G:
Introduction
G.1 Are individualist anarchists anti-capitalist?
G.1.1 What about their support of the free market?
G.1.2 What about their support of "private property"?
G.1.3 What about their support for wage labour?
G.1.4 Why is the social context important in evaluating Individualist Anarchism?
G.2 Why do individualist anarchists reject social anarchism?
G.2.1 Is communist-anarchism compulsory?
G.2.2 Is communist-anarchism violent?
G.2.3 Does communist-anarchism aim to destroy individuality?
G.2.4 What other reasons do individualists give for rejecting communist-anarchism?
G.2.5 Do most anarchists agree with the individualists on communist-anarchism?
G.3 Is "anarcho"-capitalism a new form of individualist anarchism?
G.3.1 Is "anarcho"-capitalism American anarchism?
G.3.2 What are the differences between "anarcho"-capitalism and individualist anarchism?
G.3.3 What about "anarcho"-capitalism's support of "defence associations"?
G.3.4 Why is individualist anarchist support for equality important?
G.3.5 Would individualist anarchists have accepted "Austrian" economics?
G.3.6 Would mutual banking simply cause inflation?
G.4 Why do social anarchists reject individualist anarchism?
G.4.1 Is wage labour consistent with anarchist principles?
G.4.2 Why do social anarchists think individualism is inconsistent anarchism?
G.5 Benjamin Tucker: capitalist or anarchist?
G.6 What are the ideas of Max Stirner?
Sección H:
H.1.1 What was Bakunin's critique of Marxism?
H.1.2 What are the key differences between Anarchists and Marxists?
H.1.3 Why do anarchists wish to abolish the state "overnight"?
H.1.4 Do anarchists have "absolutely no idea" of what to put in place of the state?
H.1.5 Why do anarchists reject "utilising the present state"?
H.1.6 Why do anarchists try to "build the new world in the shell of the old"?
H.1.7 Haven't you read Lenin's "State and Revolution"?
H.2 What parts of anarchism do Marxists particularly misrepresent?
H.2.1 Do anarchists reject defending a revolution?
H.2.2 Do anarchists reject "class conflict" and "collective struggle"?
H.2.3 Does anarchism yearn "for what has gone before"?
H.2.4 Do anarchists think "the state is the main enemy"?
H.2.5 Do anarchists think "full blown" socialism will be created overnight?
H.2.6 How do Marxists misrepresent Anarchist ideas on mutual aid?
H.2.7 Who do anarchists see as their "agents of social change"?
H.2.8 What is the relationship of anarchism to syndicalism?
H.2.9 Do anarchists have "liberal" politics?
H.2.10 Are anarchists against leadership?
H.2.11 Are anarchists "anti-democratic"?
H.2.12 Does anarchism survive only in the absence of a strong workers' movement?
H.2.13 Do anarchists reject "political" struggles and action?
H.2.14 Are anarchist organisations "ineffective," "elitist" or "downright bizarre"?
H.3 What are the myths of state socialism?
H.3.1 Do Anarchists and Marxists want the same thing?
H.3.2 Is Marxism "socialism from below"?
H.3.3 Is Leninism "socialism from below"?
H.3.4 Don't anarchists just quote Marxists selectively?
H.3.5 Has Marxist appropriation of anarchist ideas changed it?
H.3.6 Is Marxism the only revolutionary politics which have worked?
H.3.7 What is wrong with the Marxist theory of the state?
H.3.8 What is wrong with the Leninist theory of the state?
H.3.9 Is the state simply an agent of economic power?
H.3.10 Has Marxism always supported the idea of workers' councils?
H.3.11 Does Marxism aim to give power to workers organisations?
H.3.12 Is big business the precondition for socialism?
H.3.13 Why is state socialism just state capitalism?
H.3.14 Don't Marxists believe in workers' control?
H.4 Didn't Engels refute anarchism in "On Authority"?
H.4.1 Does organisation imply the end of liberty?
H.4.2 Does free love show the weakness of Engels' argument?
H.4.3 How do anarchists propose to run a factory?
H.4.4 How does the class struggle refute Engels' arguments?
H.4.5 Is the way industry operates "independent of all social organisation"?
H.4.6 Why does Engels' "On Authority" harm Marxism?
H.4.7 Is revolution "the most authoritarian thing there is"?
H.5 What is vanguardism and why do anarchists reject it?
H.5.1 Why are vanguard parties anti-socialist?
H.5.2 Have vanguardist assumptions been validated?
H.5.3 Why does vanguardism imply party power?
H.5.4 Did Lenin abandon vanguardism?
H.5.5 What is "democratic centralism"?
H.5.6 Why do anarchists oppose "democratic centralism"?
H.5.7 Is the way revolutionaries organise important?
H.5.8 Are vanguard parties effective?
H.5.9 What are vanguard parties effective at?
H.5.10 Why does "democratic centralism" produce "bureaucratic centralism"?
H.5.11 Can you provide an example of the negative nature of vanguard parties?
H.5.12 Surely the Russian Revolution proves that vanguard parties work?
H.6 Why did the Russian Revolution fail?
H.6.1 Can objective factors explain the failure of the Russian Revolution?
H.6.2 Did Bolshevik ideology influence the outcome of the Russian Revolution?
H.6.3 Were the Russian workers "declassed" and "atomised"?
Sección I.
I.1 Isn't libertarian socialism an oxymoron?
I.1.1 Is socialism impossible?
I.1.2 Is libertarian communism impossible?
I.1.3 What is wrong with markets anyway?
I.1.4 If capitalism is exploitative, then isn't socialism as well?
I.1.5 Does capitalism efficiently allocate resources?
I.2 Is this a blueprint for an anarchist society?
I.2.1 Why discuss what an anarchist society would be like at all?
I.2.2 Will it be possible to go straight to an anarchist society from capitalism?
I.2.3 How is the framework of an anarchist society created?
I.3 What could the economic structure of an anarchist society look like?
I.3.1 What is a "syndicate"?
I.3.2 What is workers' self-management?
I.3.3 What does socialisation mean?
I.3.4 What relations exist between individual syndicates?
I.3.5 What would confederations of syndicates do?
I.3.6 What about competition between syndicates?
I.3.7 What about people who do not want to join a syndicate?
I.3.8 Do anarchists seek "small autonomous communities, devoted to small scale production"?
I.4 How would an anarchist economy function?
I.4.1 What is the point of economic activity in anarchy?
I.4.2 Why do anarchists desire to abolish work?
I.4.3 How do anarchists intend to abolish work?
I.4.4 What economic decision making criteria could be used in anarchy?
I.4.5 What about "supply and demand"?
I.4.6 Surely communist-anarchism would just lead to demand exceeding supply?
I.4.7 What will stop producers ignoring consumers?
I.4.8 What about investment decisions?
I.4.9 Should technological advance be seen as anti-anarchistic?
I.4.10 What would be the advantage of a wide basis of surplus distribution?
I.4.11 If socialism eliminates the profit motive, won't performance suffer?
I.4.12 Won't there be a tendency for capitalism to reappear?
I.4.13 Who will do the dirty or unpleasant work?
I.4.14 What about the person who will not work?
I.4.15 What will the workplace of tomorrow look like?
I.4.16 Won't a libertarian communist society be inefficient?
I.5 What would the social structure of anarchy look like?
I.5.1 What are participatory communities?
I.5.2 Why are confederations of participatory communities needed?
I.5.3 What will be the scales and levels of confederation?
I.5.4 How will anything ever be decided by all these meetings?
I.5.5 Are participatory communities and confederations not just new states?
I.5.6 Won't there be a danger of a "tyranny of the majority" under anarchism?
I.5.7 What if I don't want to join a commune?
I.5.8 What about crime?
I.5.9 What about Freedom of Speech under Anarchism?
I.5.10 What about political parties, interest groups and professional bodies?
I.5.11 How will an anarchist society defend itself the power hungry?
I.5.12 Would an anarchist society provide health care and other public services?
I.6 What about the "Tragedy of the Commons"?
I.6.1 How can property 'owned by everyone in the world' be used?
I.6.2 Doesn't communal ownership restrict individual liberty?
I.7 Won't Libertarian Socialism destroy individuality?
I.7.1 Do tribal cultures indicate that communalism defends individuality?
I.7.2 Is this not worshipping the past or the "noble savage"?
I.7.3 Is the law required to protect individual rights?
I.7.4 Does capitalism protect individuality?
I.8 Does revolutionary Spain show that libertarian socialism can work in practice?
I.8.1 Is the Spanish Revolution inapplicable as a model for modern societies?
I.8.2 How were the anarchists able to obtain mass popular support in Spain?
I.8.3 How were Spanish industrial collectives organised?
I.8.4 How were the Spanish industrial collectives co-ordinated?
I.8.5 How were the Spanish agricultural co-operatives organised and co-ordinated?
I.8.6 What did the agricultural collectives accomplish?
I.8.7 Were the rural collectives were created by force?
I.8.8 But did the Spanish collectives innovate?
I.8.9 Why, if it was so good, did it not survive?
I.8.10 Why did the C.N.T. collaborate with the state?
I.8.11 Was the decision to collaborate a product of anarchist theory?
I.8.12 Was the decision to collaborate imposed on the CNT's membership?
I.8.13 What political lessons were learned from the revolution?
I.8.14 What economic lessons were learned from the revolution?
Sección J:
Introduction
J.1 Are anarchists involved in social struggles?
J.1.1 Why are social struggles important?
J.1.2 Are anarchists against reforms?
J.1.3 Why are anarchists against reformism?
J.1.4 What attitude do anarchists take
to "single-issue" campaigns?
J.1.5 Why do anarchists try to generalise
social struggles?
J.2 What is direct action?
J.2.1 Why do anarchists favour using direct action
to change things?
J.2.2 Why do anarchists reject voting
as a means for change?
J.2.3 What are the political implications
of voting?
J.2.4 Surely voting for radical parties
will be effective?
J.2.5 Why do anarchists support abstentionism
and what are its implications?
J.2.6 What are the effects of radicals
using electioneering?
J.2.7 Surely we should vote for reformist
parties in order to show them up for what they are?
J.2.8 Will abstentionism lead to the
right winning elections?
J.2.9 What do anarchists do instead
of voting?
J.2.10 Does rejecting electioneering
mean that anarchists are apolitical?
J.4 What trends in society aid anarchist activity?
J.4.1 Why is social struggle a good sign?
J.4.2 Won't social struggle do more harm than good?
J.4.3 Are the new social movements a positive development for anarchists?
J.4.4 What is the "economic structural crisis"?
J.4.5 Why is this "economic structural crisis" important to social struggle?
J.4.6 What are implications of anti-government and anti-big business feelings?
J.4.7 What about the communications revolution?
J.4.8 What is the significance of the accelerating rate of change and the information explosion?
J.4.9 What are Netwars?
J.5 What alternative social organisations do anarchists create?
J.5.1 What is community unionism?
J.5.2 Why do anarchists support industrial unionism?
J.5.3 What attitude do anarchists take to existing unions?
J.5.4 What are industrial networks?
J.5.5 What forms of co-operative credit do anarchists support?
J.5.6 What are the key features of mutual credit schemes?
J.5.7 Do most anarchists think mutual credit is sufficient to abolish capitalism?
J.5.8 What would a modern system of mutual banking look like?
J.5.9 How does mutual credit work?
J.5.10 Why do anarchists support co-operatives?
J.5.11 If workers really want self-management, why aren't there more producer co-operatives?
J.5.12 If self-management is more efficient, surely capitalist firms will be forced to introduce it by the market?
J.5.13 What are Modern Schools?
J.5.14 What is Libertarian Municipalism?
J.5.15 What attitude do anarchists take to the welfare state?
J.5.16 Are there any historical examples of collective self-help?
J.6 What methods of child rearing do anarchists advocate?
J.6.1 What are the main principles of raising free children and the main obstacles to implementing those principles?
J.6.2 What are some examples of libertarian child-rearing methods applied to the care of newborn infants
J.6.3 What are some examples of libertarian child-rearing methods applied to the care of young children?
J.6.4 If children have nothing to fear, how can they be good?
J.6.5 But how can children learn ethics if they are not given punishments, prohibitions, and religious instruction?
J.6.6 But how will a free child ever learn unselfishness?
J.6.7 Isn't what you call "libertarian child-rearing" just another name for spoiling the child?
J.6.8 What is the anarchist position on teenage sexual liberation?
J.6.9 But isn't this concern with teenage sexual liberation just a distraction from issues that should be of more concern to anarchists, like restructuring the economy?
J.7 What do anarchists mean by "social revolution"?
J.7.1 Are all anarchists revolutionaries?
J.7.2 Is social revolution possible?
J.7.3 Doesn't revolution mean violence?
J.7.4 What would a social revolution involve?
J.7.5 What is the role of anarchists in a social revolution?
J.7.6 How could an anarchist revolution defend itself?
También faltan los Apéndices:
Apéndice A: Anarchism and "Anarcho"-capitalism. Sólo está la introducción
Apéndice B: The Symbols of Anarchy. Falta Entero
Apéndice C: Anarchism and Marxism. Falta Entero
Apéndice D: The Russian Revolution. Traduciéndose en http://www.alasbarricadas.org/forums/vi ... 24&t=45722
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Intentamos una vez más incidir en la colaboración entre compañeros, la cooperación y el apoyo mutuo.
Salud
Edit: actualización de las secciones pendientes.