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Andrew T

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

That approach has since been influential across Latin America and beyond, including North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. I've actually spoken about especificismo on this podcast before and on my channel, but to give a quick summary, especificismo is an organizational approach guided by three key concepts.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

That approach has since been influential across Latin America and beyond, including North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. I've actually spoken about especificismo on this podcast before and on my channel, but to give a quick summary, especificismo is an organizational approach guided by three key concepts.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

That approach has since been influential across Latin America and beyond, including North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. I've actually spoken about especificismo on this podcast before and on my channel, but to give a quick summary, especificismo is an organizational approach guided by three key concepts.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

The first is the need for a specifically anarchist organization built around a unity of ideas and praxis. The second is the use of the specifically anarchist organization to theorize and develop strategic, political, and organizing work. And the third is active involvement in and shaping of autonomous and popular social movements, which is described as the process of social insertion.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

The first is the need for a specifically anarchist organization built around a unity of ideas and praxis. The second is the use of the specifically anarchist organization to theorize and develop strategic, political, and organizing work. And the third is active involvement in and shaping of autonomous and popular social movements, which is described as the process of social insertion.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

The first is the need for a specifically anarchist organization built around a unity of ideas and praxis. The second is the use of the specifically anarchist organization to theorize and develop strategic, political, and organizing work. And the third is active involvement in and shaping of autonomous and popular social movements, which is described as the process of social insertion.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

Especifists reject the left unity idea of a synthesis organization of revolutionaries or even multiple currents of anarchists loosely united because they feel it boils down to a lowest common denominator politics. They feel that when this unity is preferred at any cost, it leaves little room for united action or developed political discussion.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

Especifists reject the left unity idea of a synthesis organization of revolutionaries or even multiple currents of anarchists loosely united because they feel it boils down to a lowest common denominator politics. They feel that when this unity is preferred at any cost, it leaves little room for united action or developed political discussion.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

Especifists reject the left unity idea of a synthesis organization of revolutionaries or even multiple currents of anarchists loosely united because they feel it boils down to a lowest common denominator politics. They feel that when this unity is preferred at any cost, it leaves little room for united action or developed political discussion.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

It can be described in a sense as an affinity group with the shared interest in the advancement of a very specific politic, but they aren't just internally focused. Unesco is focused on building popular power as a means of revolutionary transformation, rejecting both electoral and vanguardist Marxist approaches.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

It can be described in a sense as an affinity group with the shared interest in the advancement of a very specific politic, but they aren't just internally focused. Unesco is focused on building popular power as a means of revolutionary transformation, rejecting both electoral and vanguardist Marxist approaches.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

It can be described in a sense as an affinity group with the shared interest in the advancement of a very specific politic, but they aren't just internally focused. Unesco is focused on building popular power as a means of revolutionary transformation, rejecting both electoral and vanguardist Marxist approaches.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

So the Especifismo distinguishes between specifically anarchist political organizations or affinity groups and broader mass movements. And they advocate for anarchists creating the former and inserting themselves in the latter. building up anarchist presence and the presence of anarchist ideas in unions, in student groups, and in community struggles.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

So the Especifismo distinguishes between specifically anarchist political organizations or affinity groups and broader mass movements. And they advocate for anarchists creating the former and inserting themselves in the latter. building up anarchist presence and the presence of anarchist ideas in unions, in student groups, and in community struggles.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

So the Especifismo distinguishes between specifically anarchist political organizations or affinity groups and broader mass movements. And they advocate for anarchists creating the former and inserting themselves in the latter. building up anarchist presence and the presence of anarchist ideas in unions, in student groups, and in community struggles.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

So if you want a more in-depth exploration of Especifismo, I suggest reading the discussion between Felipe Correa and Juan Carlos Mecoso called The Strategy of Especifismo on the Anarchist Library.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

So if you want a more in-depth exploration of Especifismo, I suggest reading the discussion between Felipe Correa and Juan Carlos Mecoso called The Strategy of Especifismo on the Anarchist Library.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

So if you want a more in-depth exploration of Especifismo, I suggest reading the discussion between Felipe Correa and Juan Carlos Mecoso called The Strategy of Especifismo on the Anarchist Library.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

And they talk about how the fragmentation of the working class under neoliberalism has created some very distinct challenges that require fresh organizational strategies and less dogmatic rigidity to simplistic class analysis.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

And they talk about how the fragmentation of the working class under neoliberalism has created some very distinct challenges that require fresh organizational strategies and less dogmatic rigidity to simplistic class analysis.