Why do anarchists reject political activity?
After spreading falsehoods against Bakunin, Mitchinson states that: “Marxism fights for the conquest of political power by the working class and the building of a socialist society, under which the state will wither away. “Until then should workers refrain from political activity? Should they reject all reforms that might improve their existence? Nothing would please Blair or the bosses more.” It is ironic that Mitchinson mentions Blair. He is, after all, the leader of the Labour Party — as mass workers party formed from the trade unions to use political action to gain reforms within capitalism. The current state of Labour indicates well the comment that “in proportion as the socialists become a power in the present bourgeois society and State, their socialism must die out.” [Kropotkin, Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets, p. 189] It is as if the history of Social Democracy (or even the German Greens) does not exist for Mitchinson — he points to Blair to refute anarchist analysis tha
