https://youtube.com/watch?v=RTmVmeZKIkE&si=hqe94wIvVC2GP_Nz
"No gods, no masters, only drip"
-the comments
#music #anarchy #makhno #remix #protestmusic #antifascist #classwar
#Makhno
"Anarchism may be a popular political brand in Ukraine today, but it’s not anarchism as we know it."
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/anarchism-in-makhnos-homeland-adventures-of-red-and-black-flag/
Colin Darch's book Nestor #Makhno & Rural #Anarchism in #Ukraine, 1917-1921 is a fascinating #history on the anarcho-communist experiment known as makhnovshchina in southeast Ukraine (partly where the Russo-Ukraine war is being fought). They fought German colonizers, the Whites, & the Red Army, before being driven into exile. They supported regional #peasant #autonomy & the election of #military officers (unlike the Bolsheviks). Highly-recommended.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786805270/nestor-makhno-and-rural-anarchism-in-ukraine-1917-1921
![From Darch's book: "The 'Russian revolution of 1917 was not just ‘Russian, nor was it a single event: it is better understood rather as a 'kaleidoscopic process ... a complex pattern of overlapping revolutions ... [with] distinctive dynamics of their own’. It took place at a moment when ‘inter-imperial rivalries’ were leading to the collapse of the great European multi-national and multi-ethnic state formations. For the Russian Empire, the revolution changed relations among nationalities most dramatically ‘in the triangle of imperial Russian national identity’ within which the dominant axis subsumed Ukraine into Russia. In this context, as we have seen, makhnovshchina sought, not so much to break Ukraine away from imperial rule as to deconstruct the entire state-based national paradigm, and build local socio-economic relations from the bottom up on anarchist Principles."](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/319/087/096/203/832/original/32c929c0be0d9e39.jpg)
What a revelation! :pride:
Micro Zoe: *Femboy Nestor Makhno*
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#ukraine #makhno - Ils et elles se battent à l’extérieur contre l’invasion poutinienne, à l’intérieur contre la politique antisociale de l’État ukrainien. Ils et elles sont syndicalistes, libertaires, féministes, écologistes… Nestor Makhno leur est une référence toujours vivante. Un documentaire est en cours de tournage pour leur donner la parole. Une souscription est ouverte pour financer sa réalisation.
The state often makes use of its former opponents once they are safely dead and no longer the threat they were in life. The Ukrainian state and its media have done this with the legendary anarchist communist Nestor Makhno.
Makhno, a native of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, was a lifelong anarchist revolutionary. The son of poor peasants, he joined his local anarchist communist group in 1906, subsequently spending nine years in prison for his involvement with the killing of a district police officer. Whilst in prison he developed his politics and when liberated by the Provisional Government in 1917, he returned to his home town and was elected chair of the local carpenters and metal workers union and the local Soviet of Peasants and Workers Deputies and threw himself into the maelstrom of the Russian revolution in Ukraine. He has become most well known for leading the Revolutionary Insurgent Army, also known as the Black Army. This politico-military force combatted the White counter-revolutionary armies and, eventually the Red Army. But it also vigorously fought Ukrainian Nationalists, a faction of whom had murdered Makhno’s brother, Omelian. Makhno was no friend of any sort of nationalism – neither Ukrainian or Russian. The ‘Makhnovist’ movement attempted to create free territory based on self-managed communes. The largest of these was named after Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish Marxist of Jewish descent. Hardly the actions of Ukrainian nationalists!
But that hasn’t stopped Makhno being claimed as a Ukrainian patriot, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Whilst this started before the Russian invasion, it has increased during the war with many fighters claiming to be in the tradition of Makhno and with nationalists using imagery associated with the Makhnovists. This took an interesting turn with the destruction of the Huliaipole Museum on August 23rd this year, following a Russian missile attack. This local museum centres Huliaipole’s most famous son and the movement associated with his name, with displays and permanent exhibitions. The exhibits, however, were moved into central State storage facilities for safekeeping away from the frontline town the day before the attack.
The destruction of the museum, seen as a direct attack upon Ukrainian and Zaporozhzian culture, has been used to whip up patriotic sentiment and Makhno’s memory, reimagined as a national hero – a sort of national anarchist – has been used to mobilise support for war at a time when resistance to conscription is at its highest point since the beginning of the conflict.
Added to this, the Huliaipole’s statue of Makhno, which was partially destroyed by a Russian attack on May 23rd, has recently been replaced with fanfare with the addition of a Ukrainian national flag in the hand of a man who never would have held it in real life. The replacement has hoped to raise morale in a town where the only civic building still fully functioning was the museum. Since May 2023 no ATMs, no doctors, with only 1 shop open 2 hours per day accepting only cash, and only 600 civilians remaining from a pre-war 14,000.
Odessa based historian, Vyacheslav Azarov gives some background to attempts to co-opt Makhno to the nationalist cause:
“The first campaign to privatise Makhnovism by nationalists began during the “orange” demonstrations of 2004 and the subsequent rule of Victor Yushchenko. The organizers of the first Maidan tried to compare their political technology events with the people’s liberation of Huliaipole, and the patriotic grant activists led by Oles Doniy actively called for the “posthumous Ukrainisation” of Makhno. They did not hide the fact that the appropriation of Makhnovist heritage was necessary for the purpose of promoting nationalist ideology in the territories of the South-East, which was hostile to the Banderist movement. The peak of this campaign was the ceremonial installation of the monument to the Batko in Huliaipole, which was organized by the then Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko with the financial support of a well-known oligarch from Zaporozhye. The monument is certainly good – but the fact that the police minister stood behind it, who then dropped the phrase: “if you want, call me a racist!”, gave the events an absurd character. This political privatisation has been seen at the Independence Day with Makhno festival, which was held in Huliaipole for several years in a row under the patronage of the same Lutsenko. Banderist flags were flying over the concert venue, anti-Semitic and xenophobic slogans were heard from the stage, the organizers forbade performing Russian-language songs and generally speaking Russian on stage – the native language for the absolute majority of Huliaipole residents. Uncommitted guests of the Makhnofest noted the dominance of nationalists and reactionary rhetoric – suffice it to say that the cult Odessa Nazi Maxim Chayka took part in it. And all this completely contradicted the ideas and views of the outstanding Ukrainian anarchist.”
Sad and bitter days in the birthplace of Makhno.
Source: Anarchist Communist Group
#anarchist #europe #makhno #russiaUkraineWar #russianRevolution #ukraine
"La libertad de cada individuo funda la so ciedad libertaria; atendiendo su integridad por la descentralización y la realización del objetivo común: el comunismo anarquista.
El comunismo anarquista, es una sociedad que se funda sobre la vida libre de todo hombre , sobre su derecho intangible a un desarrollo infinito, sobre la supresión de todas las injusticias y de todos los dolores que entorpecen el progreso y el perfeccionamiento de la sociedad".
Nestor Makhno, 1926
#anarcocomunismo
#makhno
Nestor Makhno died on July 25th, 1934. A committed anarchist communist all of his life, he suffered prison, where he contracted the TB that finally killed him, many wounds which left his body scarred in many places, and exile and poverty, yet he stuck to his ideas.
“The freedom of any individual carries within it the seed of a free and complete community without government, a free society that lives in organic and decentralised totality, united in its pursuit of the great human goal: Anarchist Communism!” Nestor Ivanovych Makhno.
Speech given on July 17th, 1921, to the defeated Makhnovist forces before they withdrew over the border to Romania : “The communism to which we aspire assumes that there is individual freedom, equality, self-management, initiative, creativity and plenty. We have spelled out our thoughts in our ‘Declarations.’ We have had the chance and we have striven to build a society on the libertarian principles of non-violence, but the Bolsheviks have not allowed us to proceed with this. They have turned the clash of ideas into a struggle against men. Not only has the entire State apparatus, despised by the people, with its functionaries and its prisons and so on, not been liquidated, but it has simply been re-cast. The Bolsheviks have proclaimed might as their only right.
The foundations of the society that the Bolshevik-Communists have laid, after eliminating all other parties and rivals, have nothing to do with communism. They amount to a closed, semi-military sect of ‘soldiers of Marx, blindly disciplined and with pretensions to infallibility, rejecting any quibbles and in hot pursuit of the goal of a totalitarian State which grants neither freedoms nor rights to its citizens and which peddles a novel brand of ideological racism. It breaks the people up into ‘their own ‘ and ‘the rest.’ In many respects, it is an absurdity. They deprive the toilers of all their dreams of a better life and they are building the most wretched, most unfair police society from which the joys of labor, creativity and the spirit of enterprise are to be banished.
Their experiments will be pointless and they will co-opt folk of the same outlook, authority will be extended through the conjuring up of unanswerable demagogues and dictators. They will rule and, by means of prisons and coercion, they will compel the toilers to work themselves to death for a glass of buttermilk … They will tear everything down and eliminate all who are not to the Party’s taste or ideologically in tune with it … They will devise an astronomical schedule of punishments …
People’s sole preoccupation will be with survival in such frighteningly oppressive conditions. But it cannot continue forever. The strengthening of authority will inevitably lead to a complete psychological and ideological breakdown between those in charge and the toilers.
Comrades!
Be vigilant and do not cast aside your weapons for they will soon serve you again! Do not trust the Bolsheviks! We part with the feeling that we have done our revolutionary duty. Long live solidarity and unity of the toilers! Long live the third social revolution! My thanks to all of you for everything!”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/26/commemorating-death-of-nestor-makhno/
#anarchist #europe #makhno #russianRevolution #socialRevolution #ukraine
In honor of the dead, 90 years ago of Ukrainian anarchist hero Nestor Makhno. :makhno: 🏴
#NestorMakhno #Makhno #RussianRevolution #anarchism #Ukraine
✨ ★ Ⓐ #anarchisme #Liberté #autogestion #émancipation #écologie #antimilitarisme #anticléricalisme #feminisme #antiétatisme #anticapitalisme #antifascisme #internationalisme... #Makhno
✨ ★ Ⓐ #anarchisme #Liberté #autogestion #émancipation #écologie #antimilitarisme #anticléricalisme #fédéralisme_libertaire #feminisme #antiétatisme #anticapitalisme #antifascisme #internationalisme... #Makhno
Heute in der Geschichte der #Arbeiterbewegung 4. Juni 1919: Trotzki verbietet den 4. Ukrainischen Kongress der Freien Sowjets mit seinem Befehl Nr. 1824. Er schickte auch Truppen, um die Rosa-Luxemburg-Kommune bei Provkovski zu zerstören, und erklärte den ukrainischen anarchistischen Aufständischen Nestor #Makhno zum Geächteten. Das Freie Territorium in der #Ukraine, auch bekannt als Makhnovia (nach Nestor Makhno), dauerte von 1918 bis 1921. Es war eine staatenlose, anarchistische Gesellschaft, die von Makhnos Revolutionärer Aufstandsarmee (auch bekannt als Schwarze Armee) verteidigt wurde. Etwa 7 Millionen Menschen lebten in diesem Gebiet. Die #Bauern, die dort lebten, weigerten sich, Pacht an die #Grundbesitzer zu zahlen, und beschlagnahmten die Ländereien und den Viehbestand der kirchlichen, staatlichen und privaten Grundbesitzer, gründeten lokale Komitees, um sie zu verwalten und unter den verschiedenen Dörfern und Gemeinden des #Freistaats aufzuteilen.
#Arbeiterklasse #Arbeitergeschichte #Anarchismus #Ukraine #Nestormakhno #Revolution #sowjetisch #kommunistisch #Trotzki #Aufstand #SchwarzeArmee #Bauern #Kommune #Anarchismus
From: @MikeDunnAuthor
https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social@kolektiva.social@kolektiva.social/112558794740801654
Monument to anarchist Nestor #Makhno was destroyed by the russian rocket strike in #Huliaipole.
I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real :koishtare:
https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory
Also don't you try bringing up #Makhno to defend your #entryism. The Black Army's circumstances were unique; they were literally fighting everyone else in the Russian civil war and most anarchist thinking at the time wasn't remotely considering the possibility of doing away with the armies and "revolution".
If anything the lesson that should be taken here is to not compromise with authority at all.
Так сейчас выглядит урна с прахом Нестора Махно на кладбище Пер-Лашез в Париже
#Махно #Makhno #anarchism
Ivana Hoffman and Şevger Ara Makhno, two internationalist revolutionary fighters who fell in defense of the Rojava Revolution, were commemorated this month by their organizations. Ivana Hoffman fought under the banner to the MLKP and was their first internationalist martyr in the struggle. While Makhno fell in defense of Afrin fighting with the anarchist force Tekoşîna Anarşîst.
The MLKP held an event in Tel Temir to pay homage to the fallen comrade. Hoffman was a Black, feminist communist and was the first female internationalist fighter to die in the struggle. She stated that she “decided to come to Rojava because they are fighting for humanity here, for rights and for internationalism that the MLKP represents.” The MLKP acknowledged it was a great honor to commemorate her nine years after her passing. Tekoşîna Anarşîst, through their Twitter account, paid homage to fallen fighter Şevger Ara Makhno. Their whole statement is posted below:Today marks 6 years since our comrade şehîd Şevger Ara Makhno gave his life in defense of Afrin against Turkish invasion, on a hill near the village Berbêne with two YPG comrades. We remember Ara with warmth and respect, and look up to him in our struggle. Şehîd namirin!
Ara was an anarchist from Turkey. Determined to find lessons for the anarchist movement, he came to Syria to defend the revolution with the peoples of this region. He sacrificed a lot with this decision. Today it can help us to reflect, as we choose our ways as militants.Ara united people, made everyone laugh, lifted others up. His wicked smile and passionate heart are with us. Along with grief of his death, his contribution in Rojava brought determination for us to take our steps in the revolution in NE Syria as an anarchist organization.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/27/remembering-ivana-hoffman-and-sevger-ara-makhno/
#ivanaHoffman #makhno #mlkp #rip #rojava #tekosinaAnarchist #tribute #westAsia
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