Anarchism & Marxism Part 11

A Panel Discussion on Anarchism And Marxism

Chair: Andrej Grubacic, Sociology, University of San Fancisco

Andrej Grubačić is an anarchist historian who has written prolifically on anarchism and the history of the Balkans. He is a lecturer at the ZMedia Institute and University of San Francisco.

Denis O'Hearn, Sociology, Queens College, Belfast

Denis O'Hearn has been a community activist in Belfast, serving for many years as chair of the West Belfast Economic Forum and on the Board of Governors of the Irish-language primary school Scoil na Fuisoige. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and Queens University in Belfast and was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin in 1991-92. He is now professor of sociology at the University of Binghamton in New York.
Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies

Cindy Milstein is an anarchist activist and educator who talks at various anarchist and socialist gatherings. She has also been involved with the Institute for Social Ecology, and is currently a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies and a co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference. Milstein speaks regularly in public, at anarchist conferences and bookfairs as well as radical spaces, including the Finding Our Roots conference, the Unschooling Oppression conference, the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, the Bay Area Bookfair, the New York Anarchist Book Fair, and Left Forum, among others. Her essays are published in several recent anthologies--Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority (AK Press, 2007), Globalize Liberation (City Lights, 2004), Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull, 2004), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004) as well as on the Free Society Collective Web site. She is also a collective member of the all-volunteer Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont.

Ziga Vodovnik, University of Ljubljana

Ziga Vodovnik is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, where his teaching and research is focused on anarchist theory/praxis and social movements in the Americas. His new book Anarchy of Everyday Life Notes on anarchism and its Forgotten Confluences will be released in late 2008.

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[4500jas]

@StevenVaca in case you were wondering I am a Left Communist.

[4500jas]

@StevenVaca Cuba is a success story for Leninism, not Marxism. Tell me where are the worker's councils? Why is the vanguard of the proletariat in power and not the proletariat themselves? The party has substituted the Cuban proletariat. I'm not anti-party, but the proletariat's party cannot seize power. It must offer unyielding propaganda to show the proletariat what THEY need to do. The executive orders must come from the proletarians, not the communist party.

[StevenVaca]

@4500jas Cuba failed? Cubas raised its life expectancy and literacy has free education, medicine etc and is a cultural center. Cuba is doing great the only way it has failed is in economic terms which is very capitalist thinking and this happened because of embargos and such. Cuba is a great example of succesful Marxist socialism. It is a miracle that it has succeeded despite its location, the aggression and lack of allies. Its been independent for 50yrs and is an inspiration to theBolivariangov

[4500jas]

The only way for a successful revolution would Have to mean a smaller state. Cuba, USSR, China, and all of those countries have showed us that an authoritarian communist government is not the answer. However an anarcho-communist state may work because it is very democratic, free, and still communist.

[flagwaver1969]

Just another fat leech with a red shirt.

[mitchrix31]

That last guy was great.