How is Mitchinsons critique self-contradictory?
He continues his distortion: “Whilst believing in a revolutionary struggle to overthrow capitalism, anarchists argue that it must be replaced by…nothing.” This is ironic for quite a few reasons. Firstly, above Mitchinson claimed that anarchists did not aim to overthrow capitalism, just the state. Now he is claiming we do believe in overthrowing capitalism. Secondly, he quoted Trotsky saying that anarchists just ignore the state. Now Mitchinson states we aim to overthrow the capitalism via revolutionary struggle. How do you overthrow something via revolutionary struggle by ignoring it? His critique is not even internally consistent. Moreover, he is well aware what anarchists want to replace capitalism with, after all he quotes an anarchist conference which stated that they aimed for “the creation of an absolutely free economic organisation and federation based on work and equality”! Bakunin was always arguing that the International Workers Association should become “an earnest organis
