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Without conceding anything to historically bankrupt anarchro-swindle-calism, which is a horse-drawn buggy with square wheels that has been going nowhere fast since the glory days of anarchist junior partners in a capitalist government in Spain, this part is one hundred percent on target:

"...it's insular theory that puts a hyper-focus on theorizing about the value form inherently limits its potential for actually bringing about a communist society. In attempting to rethink communism what the communisers have effectively done is disregard the basic element of the communist project (working class power and workers' control) and hand wave about some kind of new, nihilistic strategy that is designed to not really be a strategy in the first place. When communisers outline what it is they "want to do", i.e., how they want to achieve a communist society, such as "Communisation" by Troploin and "Communisation As A Way Out Of Crisis" by Bruno A., all that they seem to be able to come up with is a vague idea of an insurrectionary movement against capitalism that seeks to implement communist relations..."

The author is one hundred percent right. The basic element of the communist project is a both feet on the ground real world social movement of working class power and workers' control.

There's absolutely no credible pattern of real world action in the so-called communization current. Of course, anarcho-syndicalism failing to destroy a weakened state under the most optimal conditions that have ever existed for this, with this failing to make a communist revolution, and giving up to capital and Stalinism without offering credible resistance at any point, pretty much says it all regarding the bankruptcy of anarcho-syndicalism.

Also the weaselly poison gossip dig at Gilles Dauve at the end of this tends to undercut the credibility of the author, and is consistent with the little Boy's Room urinal wall credibility and integrity of libcom (liberal comedy?) .org