Especifismo

Started reading [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]] as [[Especifismo]] is [[node club]] node this week.

Sounds really good so far. Seems very adjacent to [[Anarchist Cybernetics]] in it's push towards organisational structures within anarchism.

Sounds related to [[Platformism]] too.

born out of nearly 50 years of anarchist experiences in South America

– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]

Three key points

• The need for specifically anarchist organization built around a unity of ideas and [[praxis]]
• The use of the specifically anarchist organization to theorize and develop strategic political and organizing work.
• Active involvement in and building of autonomous and popular social movements, which is described as the process of "[[social insertion]]"

What does 'specifically anarchist' actually mean?

Specifically anarchist

Especifists inherently state their objection to the idea of a synthesis organization of revolutionaries or multiple currents of anarchists loosely united

– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]

Interesting. What (specifically) is a synthesis organisation? Ah OK - [[Synthesis anarchism]].

North American anarchists have also offered their experiences of synthesis organization as lacking any cohesiveness due to multiple, contradictory political tendencies

– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]

the Especifists criticize these tendencies for being driven by spontaneity and individualism and for not leading to the serious, systematic work needed to build revolutionary movements

– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]

A particular stress of the Especifismo praxis is the role of anarchist organization, formed on the basis of shared politics, as a space for the development of common strategy and reflection on the group’s organizing work

– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]

All sounds a bit like some of the critiques of [[Occupy]] - in that it failed because there was no organisational structure. See e.g. [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]], [[Anarchist Cybernetics]].

On organization, the Especifists call for a far deeper basis of anarchist organization than the Platform’s “theoretical and tactical unity,” but a strategic program based on analysis that guides the actions of revolutionaries

– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]

Social insertion

[[social insertion]].

Especifismo’s conception of the relation of ideas to the popular movement is that they should not be imposed through a leadership, through “mass line,” or by intellectuals

– [[Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and Revolutionary Organization]]