What is ironic about the SWPs comment that workers councils must “break up” the capitalist state?
After misunderstanding basic concepts, the SWP treat us to a history lesson: “Such councils were a feature of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the German Revolution after the First World War, the Spanish Revolution of 1936, and many other great struggles. Socialists argue that these democratic workers’ organisations need to take power from the capitalists and break up their state.” Anarchists agree. Indeed, they argued that workers’ organisations should “break up” and replace the state long before Lenin discovered this in 1917. For example, Bakunin argued in the late 1860s that the International Workers’ Association, an “international organisation of workers’ associations from all countries”, would “be able to take the revolution into its own hands” and be “capable of replacing this departing political world of States and bourgeoisie.” The “natural organisation of the masses” was “organisation by trade association,” in other words, by unions, “from the bottom up.” The means of
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What is ironic about the SWPs comment that workers councils must “break up” the capitalist state?