            Section H - Why do anarchists oppose state socialism?

[1]Introduction

[2]H.1 Have anarchists always opposed state socialism?

   [3]H.1.1 What was Bakunin's critique of Marxism?
       [4]H.1.2 What are the key differences between Anarchists and
       Marxists?
       [5]H.1.3 Why do anarchists wish to abolish the state "overnight"?
       [6]H.1.4 Do anarchists have "absolutely no idea" of what to put in
       place of the state?
       [7]H.1.5 Why do anarchists reject "utilising the present state"?
       [8]H.1.6 Why do anarchists try to "build the new world in the shell
       of the old"?
       [9]H.1.7 Haven't you read Lenin's "State and Revolution"?

[10]H.2 What parts of anarchism do Marxists particularly misrepresent?

    [11]H.2.1 Do anarchists reject defending a revolution?
       [12]H.2.2 Do anarchists reject "class conflict" and "collective
       struggle"?
       [13]H.2.3 Does anarchism yearn "for what has gone before"?
       [14]H.2.4 Do anarchists think "the state is the main enemy"?
       [15]H.2.5 Do anarchists think "full blown" socialism will be
       created overnight?
       [16]H.2.6 How do Marxists misrepresent Anarchist ideas on mutual
       aid?
       [17]H.2.7 Who do anarchists see as their "agents of social change"?
       [18]H.2.8 What is the relationship of anarchism to syndicalism?
       [19]H.2.9 Do anarchists have "liberal" politics?
       [20]H.2.10 Are anarchists against leadership?
       [21]H.2.11 Are anarchists "anti-democratic"?
       [22]H.2.12 Does anarchism survive only in the absence of a strong
       workers' movement?
       [23]H.2.13 Do anarchists reject "political" struggles and action?
       [24]H.2.14 Are anarchist organisations "ineffective," "elitist" or
       "downright bizarre"?

[25]H.3 What are the myths of state socialism?

    [26]H.3.1 Do Anarchists and Marxists want the same thing?
       [27]H.3.2 Is Marxism "socialism from below"?
       [28]H.3.3 Is Leninism "socialism from below"?
       [29]H.3.4 Don't anarchists just quote Marxists selectively?
       [30]H.3.5 Has Marxist appropriation of anarchist ideas changed it?
       [31]H.3.6 Is Marxism the only revolutionary politics which have
       worked?
       [32]H.3.7 What is wrong with the Marxist theory of the state?
       [33]H.3.8 What is wrong with the Leninist theory of the state?
       [34]H.3.9 Is the state simply an agent of economic power?
       [35]H.3.10 Has Marxism always supported the idea of workers'
       councils?
       [36]H.3.11 Does Marxism aim to give power to workers organisations?
       [37]H.3.12 Is big business the precondition for socialism?
       [38]H.3.13 Why is state socialism just state capitalism?
       [39]H.3.14 Don't Marxists believe in workers' control?

[40]H.4 Didn't Engels refute anarchism in "On Authority"?

    [41]H.4.1 Does organisation imply the end of liberty?
       [42]H.4.2 Does free love show the weakness of Engels' argument?
       [43]H.4.3 How do anarchists propose to run a factory?
       [44]H.4.4 How does the class struggle refute Engels' arguments?
       [45]H.4.5 Is the way industry operates "independent of all social
       organisation"?
       [46]H.4.6 Why does Engels' "On Authority" harm Marxism?
       [47]H.4.7 Is revolution "the most authoritarian thing there is"?

[48]H.5 What is vanguardism and why do anarchists reject it?

    [49]H.5.1 Why are vanguard parties anti-socialist?
       [50]H.5.2 Have vanguardist assumptions been validated?
       [51]H.5.3 Why does vanguardism imply party power?
       [52]H.5.4 Did Lenin abandon vanguardism?
       [53]H.5.5 What is "democratic centralism"?
       [54]H.5.6 Why do anarchists oppose "democratic centralism"?
       [55]H.5.7 Is the way revolutionaries organise important?
       [56]H.5.8 Are vanguard parties effective?
       [57]H.5.9 What are vanguard parties effective at?
       [58]H.5.10 Why does "democratic centralism" produce "bureaucratic
       centralism"?
       [59]H.5.11 Can you provide an example of the negative nature of
       vanguard parties?
       [60]H.5.12 Surely the Russian Revolution proves that vanguard
       parties work?

[61]H.6 Why did the Russian Revolution fail?

    [62]H.6.1 Can objective factors explain the failure of the Russian
       Revolution?
       [63]H.6.2 Did Bolshevik ideology influence the outcome of the
       Russian Revolution?
       [64]H.6.3 Were the Russian workers "declassed" and "atomised"?

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