CWO reviews ‘Their Wars – Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism’
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The CWO on the book’Their Wars – Our Dead: Anarchist Reflections on Anti-Militarism’:
An attempt by the CWO to convince anarchists that, as advocates of minority action, they too believe in a vanguard and should take the next step and become Leninists. They might also have the same trouble convincing the anarchists of the CWO’s position, alluded to in the last paragraph, that a third world war is inevitable because without one capital accumulation cannot continue.
The last chapter of the book, on anarchists in Britain in the Second World Slaughter, looks interesting as it discusses the SPGB position and members’ actions in a fair way. The SPGB was of course opposed to the war but took the position that, as it wasn’t a mere anti-war party, there was no point in taking on a state at war, with the support of most workers, by calling on troops to mutiny or to turn “the war into civil war” (not that the anarchists really did anyway) or “revolutionary defeatism” (ie hope that the other side wins), and getting smashed by it.
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