• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      It advocates working within existing mass organizations, such as trade unions, in order to transform them into vehicles for a social revolution.

      How narrow or broad should we go? They come from a different side, but being flexible and ‘work within what works’ is a pretty close thing. It’s telling ‘anarchism’ is unusually ommited from the name.

      • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        The platformist organization itself has a high degree of theoretical unity. The platform was invented because the Ukrainian anarchists were so disparate and constantly bickering about theory that they couldn’t form a consistent strategy.

        Dual organizationism and social insertion are not necessarily platformist. They precede it by many decades.

        Anarchism is omitted from the name because it is implied. There are no non-anarchist platformists.