Anarcho-Communist Monthly #1
What is our strategy?
The strategy of the working class should not be an invention and planning, nor should it be a plot given from outside without their own ideals. Their own ideal is a country that eliminates capitalism!
The labor organizations that emerge from the current society are the germination of a future unified society. Therefore, the strike, the only weapon of the working class, is the seed of our strategy.
We know that the proletariat, which has developed along with capitalism, has greatly expanded and deepened its struggle. Partial strikes have lost their meaning, while group strikes have become general. We must consolidate some of the strikes into those of the General Alliance, and expand and transform the General Alliance strikes into a social revolution of the working class against capitalism and the state!
In this period of rebellion, we must take advantage of the highest priority opportunity to immediately establish all production institutions and consumer goods, so that the working class can actually have all the food, clothing, and shelter. At the same time, we must abandon all cowardly kindness and destroy all remnants of the powerful class rule of the government, release prisoners, destroy banks and police stations, destroy all documents belonging to private property societies, etc. Breaking down all barriers and boundaries, removing all debt certificates, dismantling the management of the barracks guards and policemen, and executing the famous military leaders and policemen. This is an important matter for the revolutionary working class. Having completely destroyed all vestiges of the rule of capital and the state, we must also carry out production on a new basis for as long as possible, that is, extend the existing labor organizations and their combinations and make them manageable. Production; each city must start working independently to establish an anarchist and communist society!
A General League strike is the best way to eliminate and destroy the government. The strength of the army can only be strong when it is concentrated in many places and severely trained. If they are scattered throughout the country, they will have little power. Moreover, if the sergeants once believed that what they were killing was not internal enemies, but only the entire working class, many of them would turn against each other, and they would think that they still had many relatives in their hometown. The same strike, and the same threat of gunfire, if he awakens and arouses his feelings of solidarity with the toiling brothers, at that time, the soldiers will immediately lose their power in front of the revolutionary workers, and the government will inevitably will be smashed to pieces by the loud cries of liberated mankind.
Therefore, in our opinion as anarcho-communists, economic struggle and political struggle cannot represent two completely different and unrelated divisions in themselves. Together they gather the fighting power of the working class to resist all forms of oppression, capitalists and the government.
We identify the great principle and give it life. That is to say, “the liberation of workers is a matter for the working class itself.” Because we do not believe that political parties can achieve anything against the liberation of the working class. The price they pay for the workers’ miserable struggle is only some one-sided and minor reforms. We believe that only the direct struggle of the working class can and will accomplish the destruction of the existing capitalist social order.
Therefore, we state our strategy as follows: “To join the struggle of the working class, to direct its uninterrupted expansion and deepening, to fan it and sustain the fire of the fighting spirit until we have fundamentally shattered the bond between capitalism and government.”
This is our lesson, and this is the meaning of our struggle! We must use this lesson and meaning — the General Allied Workers — to complete the social revolution. We must know that the heroic revolution and the political revolution are history.