DoreenEllenBellDotan

Yeah, so, I’m an Anarcho-Communist. Old school. Those who know me know this. I left the US to live on Kibbutz. I met my Husband on Kibbutz. He was a member of Kibbutz for 26 years. Both of our Children were born on Kibbutz. I lived on 4 Kibbutzim, from different streams and movements and in various geographical areas of Israel, over a period of about 5 years. Our Son and his lovely partner, who is from the HaShomer HaTza’ir movement of Kibbutzim, are active in establishing an Urban Kibbutz. I am also supporting Donald J. Trump for President and am convinced he won the election, likely by a landslide. Please let me explain my, admitted, odd position. There were Anarchists who were violent, of course, and who advocated violent overthrow of the established order; but most of them came to the conclusion that violence gets us nowhere. The words of Gustav Landauer echo in my Anarchist heart: “The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the State until we have created the institutions that form a real community.” “One can throw away a chair and destroy a pane of glass; but those are idle talkers and credulous idolaters of words who regard the state as such a thing or as a fetish that one can smash in order to destroy it. The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another. One day it will be realized that Socialism is not the invention of anything new, but the discovery of something actually present, of something that has grown.... We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.” “You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!” https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/212581.Gustav_Landauer David Rockefeller bankrolled the introduction of Maoism into the United States in the mid-1970s. David Rockefeller wrote the following in 1973: “Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose.” https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/from-a-china-traveler.html There is scant information about the School of Contemporary Studies, a Marxist-Maoist training program, in which I was enrolled for the 1975-76 academic year, online. It was pretty hush-hush. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/14/archives/intervention-urged-at-brooklyn-college.html We young “Communists” had no idea that David Rockefeller was our benefactor. I didn’t know until decades later. Holy Anarchy https://mysticalanarchy.blogspot.com/2020/11/blog-post_19.html My heartfelt suggestion to those who wish to live a Socialist/Anarchist life is to create Urban, Suburban and Rural Kibbutzim and Co-Operative businesses. Many already exist. There should be Federations of Co-Operative businesses. This provides a lot of protection from predatory Capitalists who buy up promising small enterprises. The largest, most successful Federation of Co-Ops in the world is Mondragon in the Basque region of Spain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation Also see: Anarcho-Syndicalism for ideas about building Co-Op businesses and Federations. If Anarcho-Communism can't supplant Capitalism organically, morally and peacefully without resorting to self-degrading; mutually-degrading methods, it is not yet robust enough to survive and we have only ourselves to ask why that is.