Against dogmatic abstraction
A critique of Cindy Milstein on anarchism and Marxism
AT THE LEFT FORUM 2010, held at Pace University in New York City in March, Cindy Milstein, director of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, spoke at a panel discussion on anarchism and Marxism, chaired by Andrej Grubacic, with fellow panelists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Andrew Curley. The topic of Milstein’s talk was the prospect for the “synthesis of anarchism and Marxism” today.1 The relation between anarchism and Marxism is a long-standing and vexing problem, for their developments have been inextricably intertwined.
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