Section H - Why do anarchists oppose state socialism?

Introduction

H.1 Have anarchists always opposed state socialism?

H.1.1 What are the key differences between Anarchists and Marxists?

H.2 What parts of anarchist theory do Marxists particularly misrepresent?

H.2.1 Is anarchism "petty-bourgeois"?
H.2.2 Do anarchists reject defending a revolution?
H.2.3 Is anarchism just "bourgeois individualism"?
H.2.4 Are anarchists against organisation or organising workers?
H.2.5 Do anarchists have no idea what to replace the state with?
H.2.6 Do anarchists worship spontaneity and reject organising as revolutionaries?
H.2.7 Do anarchists reject "political" struggles and action?
H.2.8 Does anarchism have a "negative" concept of liberty?
H.2.9 Do anarchists think "full blown" socialism will be created overnight?
H.2.10 Is anarchism "backward looking"?
H.2.11 Didn't Engels refute anarchism in his essay "On Authority"?

H.3 What are the myths of state socialism?

H.3.1 Is economic power the root of all class oppression?
H.3.2 What is wrong with Marxist economics?
H.3.3 Is Big Business the precondition for socialism?
H.3.4 Will capitalist economic crisis help create socialism?
H.3.5 Why state socialism is not socialism?
H.3.6 Why is state ownership capitalistic?
H.3.7 Why are vanguard parties anti-socialist?
H.3.8 Why will the state not "wither away?
H.3.9 Why does central planning fail?

H.4 What actually happened in Russia?

H.4.1 What is "The Bolshevik myth"?
H.4.2 What is the "Unknown Revolution"?
H.4.3 Why did the soviets become powerless in the USSR?
H.4.4 What was the Bolshevik attitude to workers' control?
H.4.5 Should the opposition socialists been repressed?
H.4.6 Did the Bolsheviks become authoritarian because of the Russia Civil War?
H.4.7 What role did Bolshevik ideology play in the degeneration of the Russian Revolution?

H.5 What was the Kronstadt Rebellion?

H.5.1 Why is the Kronstadt rebellion important?
H.5.2 What was the context of the Kronstadt revolt?
H.5.3 What was the Kronstadt Programme?
H.5.4 Did the Kronstadt rebellion reflect "the exasperation of the peasantry"?
H.5.5 What lies did the Bolsheviks spread about Kronstadt?
H.5.6 Was the Kronstadt revolt a White plot?
H.5.7 What was the real relationship of Kronstadt to the Whites?
H.5.8 Did the rebellion involve new sailors?
H.5.9 Was Kronstadt different politically?
H.5.10 Why did the Petrograd workers not support Kronstadt?
H.5.11 Were the Whites a threat during the Kronstadt revolt?
H.5.12 Was the country too exhausted to allow soviet democracy?
H.5.13 Was there a real alternative to Kronstadt's "third revolution"?
H.5.14 How do modern day Trotskyists misrepresent Kronstadt?
H.5.15 What does Kronstadt tell us about Bolshevism?

H.6 Why does the Makhnovist movement show there is an alternative to Bolshevism?

H.7 What is market socialism?

H.7.1 What's wrong with market socialism from a libertarian perspective?
H.7.2 Is there any form of market socialism that is compatible with libertarian socialism?