Wobblies and Zapatistas : Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History

Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my country is the world." Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement. The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, anti-globalist counter summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, "intentional" communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers' Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible. -- from publisher description Acknowledgments Foreword, Forward! by Denis O’Hearn PART I, MARXISM, ANARCHISM AND ZAPATISMO Zapatismo What is Globalization? What is the Zapatista Strategy for Change? Does it Work? A Haymarket Synthesis Zapatismo and Haymarket The Wobbly Experience A Culture of Solidarity The New Movement Luxemburg, Weil, and E. P. Thompson The Working Class Another Path What I Learned Solidarity Unionism And So? Direct Action and Accompaniment Liberation Magazine and Studies on the Left Theory and Practice in Marx Is There Such a Thing as Theory Arising from Practice? More Theory? What About Anarchism? High and Low Theory Low Theory in Practice Anarchists Need Marxism Burnham’s Dilemma Accompaniment Archbishop Oscar Romero Father Uriel Molina Intellectuals and Accompaniment On Being an Intellectual I Am an Outsider Radical Intellectuals The Role of Left Intellectuals in Zapatismo Thompson, Zinn and Lynd Dual Power The Freedom School Convention The Workers’ Solidarity Club of Youngstown Solidarity USA WATCH Parallel Institutions during the American Revolution Oaxaca Spontaneity and Organization Direct Democracy and Representation Are We Winning? Old and New Movements: Similarities and Differences Seeds and Soil Marxism and Anarchism Visions and Seeds Seeds of Solidarity A Seed Bank for Seeds of Solidarity? How Can We Rebuild Our Movement? Why the 1960s Had it Easier A False Start and an Incomplete Apocalypse Seeds Beneath the Snow Soldiers Workers Prisoners Drawing the Threads Together and Behaving Like Comrades PART II, GUERRILLA HISTORY What Is Guerrilla History? History from the Bottom Up British Marxist Historians American Radical Historians Economic Interest and Ideology Sons of Liberty History by Participants in the Struggle History as Accompaniment The U.S. Steel Case The Supermax Prison and the Lucasville Rebellion Stan, Marty and Solidarity Unionism Stan Weir The S.S. Hanapepe The Oakland General Strike The Informal Work Group Marty Glaberman From Action to Ideas The Grievance PART III, MY COUNTRY IS THE WORLD Homeland without Nationality Going Too Far toward a False Internationalism Finding One’s Way toward an Internationalism of the Heart A Synthesis Humanitarian Activism Blacks and Whites Almost Together White Skin Privilege and Offing the Pig People Different from Oneself People Different from Oneself Accompaniment Is Not Deference Examples of Interracial Solidarity Interracial Cooperation among the Poor Anabaptism and Movements of the 1950s and 1960s Native Americans and Colonists Who Lived Together Consensus Decisionmaking Palestine and Israel A Conclusion A Crooked Journey We’ve Done Enough Dying You’re Wrong Martin Buber Gulf War I Joe Hill Suber and Holocaust Anti-War Movements in the 1960s and in the New Millennium Then and Now Self-Sacrifice The McNamara Meeting The Effect on McNamara The Effect on the Vietnamese The Effect on War Resisters in the United States Three Kinds of Self-Sacrifice Central American Solidarity The Preferential Option for the Poor Mexico and Martha Do We Need Rights? Critical Legal Studies War, Peace and Nonviolence Grand Illusion Bread and Wine Matthew 25 Ain’t I a Woman? Helen Merrell Lynd and Mary Cushing Niles More on Helen Lynd Men Have Had Their Chance Humanitarian Imperialism and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Humanitarian Imperialism Marxist and Anarchist Terrorism: An Historical Dead End The American Civil War Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Conclusion Books and articles mentioned in or relevant to the text Index About the Authors *Wobblies and Zapatistas* offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that “my country is the world.” Encompassing a Left-libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement. The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, antiglobalist counter-summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, “intentional” communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers’ Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible. (Source: [PM Press](https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=56)) Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my country is the world." Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement.The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, anti-globalist counter summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, "intentional" communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers' Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible. Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubačić is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that “my country is the world.” Encompassing a Left-libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement. The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, antiglobalist counter-summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, “intentional” communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers'Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible. Staughton Lynd And Andrej Grubacic ; Introduction By Denis O'hearn. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 243-256) And Index.