platformism

Today "Platformism" is an important current in international anarchism.

It is also the philosophical basis for Makhno's contribution to platformism.

It is one of the key texts of the anarchist-communist current known as platformism.

The Platform describes four key organisational features which distinguish platformism:

Platformism is not, therefore, a revision away from classical anarchism, or a new approach, but a "restatement" of existing positions.

Old socialist anarchism includes anarcho-collectivism, anarcho-communism, platformism and anarcho-syndicalism.

The gap widened between proponents of Platformism and those who followed Voline's synthesis anarchism.

Anarcho-communist currents include platformism and insurrectionary anarchism.

In the seventies the FA evolved into a joining of the principles of both synthesis anarchism and platformism.

Post-left anarchism has been critical of more classical schools of anarchism such as platformism and anarcho-syndicalism.

The organizational debate between synthesis anarchism and platformism took importance once again especially in the anarchist movements of Italy and France.

Synthesis anarchism, Voline's and Sebastien Faure's response to platformism.

"Anarcho-Communists, Platformism, and Dual Power: Innovation or Travesty?"

The synthesist Italian Anarchist Federation appeared after the war and the old factions alongside platformism and insurrectionary anarchism continue until today.

The anarchist tendency known as platformism has been criticized by Situationists, insurrectionaries, synthesis anarchists and others of preserving tacitly statist, authoritarian or bureaucratic tendencies.

Synthesis anarchism emerged as an organizational alternative to platformism that tries to join anarchists of different tendencies under the principles of anarchism without adjectives.

Former member James O'Brien has alleged that recently, under the guidance of Andrew Flood, the organisation has begun to abandon platformism and support individualism.

As an alternative to platformism Voline and Sebastien Faure proposed synthesist anarchist federations, which they envisioned to form under the principles of anarchism without adjectives.

Prairie Struggle, Common Cause like NEFAC and the WSM are projects based on platformism.

The WSF was in the tradition of platformism, as opposed to the far looser ARM, and focused mainly on work within black working class and student struggles.

Despite this, the FAQ presents and describes other anarchist schools of thought such as individualist anarchism, anarcha-feminism, and some lesser known theories like platformism and anarcho-primitivism.

On platformism Bob Black has said that "It attests to the ideological bankruptcy of the organizational anarchists today that they should exhume (not resurrect) a manifesto which was already obsolete when promulgated in 1926.

It remains controversial to this day, continuing to inspire some anarchists (notably the platformism tendency) because of the clarity and functionality of the structures it proposes, while drawing criticism from others (including, at the time of publication, Voline and Malatesta) who viewed its implications as too rigid and hierarchical.

Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber has noted that while the major schools of Marxism always have founders (e.g. Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism), schools of anarchism "almost invariably emerge from some kind of organizational principle or form of practice", citing anarcho-syndicalism, individualist anarchism, and platformism as examples.