Anarchism

A kind of reactionary petty-bourgeois social current opposite to scientific socialism. It was prevalent in the first half of the 19th century in European countries where the petty bourgeoisie predominated, such as France, Italy, and Spain, and was represented the German Stirner, the French Proudhon, and the Russians Bakunin and Kropotkin among others.

Anarchists have as their highest ideal the establishment of an anarchic society without order as their highest ideal. Their world outlook is ultra-individualistic, proclaiming “Ego is all” and “everything is for the individual”. They oppose any form of state power and government and all authority, believing that any authority is “an evil that slaughters human wisdom and soul, and that the State is the root of all evils”, and that only by establishing an “anarchist” society without orders, without power, without obedience and without punishment could mankind be liberated. Therefore, they advocate the abolition of the State within a short period of time, or even within 24 hours, by means of “liquidation sociale”, and the establishment of an anarchic society in which individuals are absolutely free and all classes are absolutely equal. Before the proletariat conquered political power, anarchism opposed the formation of any political party organized by the proletariat and the class struggle and political activities of the proletariat for the triumph of the revolution, and in fact played a role in destroying the workers' movement and defending the capitalist system. After the proletariat conquered political power, anarchism destroyed the socialist government, the legal system and discipline, weakened the leadership of the Communist Party and corroded the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin pointed out: “Anarchism is bourgeois individualism in reverse. Individualism as the basis of the entire anarchist world outlook,” “subordination of the working class to bourgeois politics in the guise of negation of politics”. He also said: “Anarchism is a product of despair; the psychology of the unsettled intellectual or the vagabond and not of the proletarian”.