(en) Brazil, Uniaoan Arquista UNIPA - Causa do Povo #70 - What is anarchism? (pt)

Since the popular uprising last year, the media has criminalized the combative 
demonstrations, accusing workers, students and youth of "vandalism". Among these charges, 
extended with the approach of mega-events, the association between "riot" and "anarchists" 
is widespread through assertions that the anarchists are in favor of chaos in the 
demonstrations. This smear campaign is carried on mainly by major newspapers and 
television networks, but also to interested federal, state and right-wing parties (PSDB, 
PMDB, and all other scum) and said left (PT, SoL, PSTU, PC do B). To understand this 
criticism of criminalization is necessary to understand that the attacks do not happen 
because anarchists engage in acts of violence (violence is present in the actions of the 
police every day, but by no means is criminalized), but by presenting an alternative of 
fighting and organization for all the people, threatening the bourgeois order, on which 
depends the existence of all these institutions.

Is important to better understand a historical survey of the rise of anarchism as a theory 
and practice for social revolution. Anarchism emerged in their first definitions in the 
nineteenth century with the anarchist thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who pointed out that 
"Anarchy is Order, Government's Civil War," but had its most finished form through the 
systematization of the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, defending "freedom without 
Socialism is privilege and injustice; Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality. 
" So anarchism struggle for socialism, the end of social and economic injustices, the 
possibility of popular self-organization, free from exploitation of the bourgeoisie and 
the state.

In this sense, anarchists applied their ideas into action through the defense of workers' 
organizations, in which workers unite to everyday demands; and through revolutionary 
organizations. Through daily struggle against exploitation, demanding wage increases, 
better working conditions, equal rights for men and women, reduction of working hours, it 
was possible to build and consolidate entities struggle of workers in various parts of the 
world.

So, what methods to transform this reality of exploitation? Firstly, it is necessary to 
rescue the existence of two antagonistic classes in society: the bourgeoisie, possessed of 
the means of production (machinery, land, factories, etc.); and workers who need to sell 
their work to survive. Understanding that the interests of the two classes are opposites, 
workers must seek their methods of organization to achieve its immediate interests. For 
anarchists, this organization is through direct action (which is not only to destroy or 
face), but it is the very ability to organize, creating the conditions of struggle in 
itself, ie, ensuring that actions are done by the workers themselves, instead of waiting 
to be made by any leader, party or government.

In defense of an immediate vindicating program, anarchists point to the need for the 
construction of the general strike, tool that demonstrates the national collective power, 
stopping the production and forcing employers and governments to cede. The general strike 
demonstrates the strength of worker organization, and ensures the victory of immediate 
demands. However, although it is profoundly important, the struggle for improvement of 
day-to-day workers can not be separated from the struggle to end the exploitation of the 
state and capital through an Integral Revolution.

The Revolution must be built by workers, with the aid of anarchist theory, and not 
dictated by a leading group from the general assembly of the working class to think the 
revolution. It is necessary to build the revolution because all the achievements of 
today's workers remain threatened as long as a capitalist regime and while there is a 
class that lives without work.

Trinfo by the working class against the bourgeoisie!
At triumph of freedom over exploitation!