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Russell Blackwell
Russell Blackwell was an American anarchist and former communist. Life Russell Blackwell was a communist in the 1920s and a Trotskyist in the 1930s. He left the United States to establish a Communist organization for children, the Pioneers, in Mexico, where he adopted the pseudonym Rosario Negrete. Working with Manuel Rodriguez, Blackwell founded the Mexico's first Trotskyist organization, ''Oposición Comunista de Izquierda'' ("Communist Left Opposition", or OCI) in 1933. Teachers Luciano Galicia and Octavio Fernandez withdrew from the Communist Party to join the group in 1934. The organization became the ''Liga Comunista Internacionalista'' in late 1934 and published ''Nueva Internacional'', which published works by Trotsky and fundraised for artists. In the United States, following fallout in the Trotskyist Workers Party, a faction known as Oehler-Stamm broke off to found the Revolutionary Workers League. Blackwell was a major personality in the League. The group sent Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, governments, nation states, and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, usually placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, it is usually described alongside communalism and libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing ( libertarian socialism) of the socialist movement. Humans lived in societies without formal hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires. With the rise of organised hierarchical bodies, scepticism toward authority also rose. Although traces of anarchist thought are found throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
