Akis Karatzogiannis wrote:the text where the quote lies has nothing to do with Marx.
And much to do with Bakunin, it seems: "We [anarchists]
must be the invisible pilots guiding the Revolution."
Our aim is the creation of a powerful but always invisible revolutionary association which will prepare and direct the revolution. We must be the invisible pilots guiding the Revolution.Bakunin quoted in S. Dolgoff (1980)
Bakunin on Anarchism.
nothing to do with Marx.
Bakunin was notorious for constantly creating,
on paper and
in his imagination, secret conspiracies run by hierarchical authorities, with himself at the top—conspiracies which were to act behind the scenes of the mass movement... Marx had declared that he was against the formation of sects, with their own dogmas, inside the workers’ movement. (Price 2017)
Marx claimed that they would dissolve in the actual course of the popular struggle. The historical process would produce the correct general direction. Therefore he opposed any factions based on specific, pre-established, political views, within the International. But, it would be a perverse reading of Marx to have Marx say, "There cannot be a revolution without anarchists", when Marx believed that
he knew the course which history would take. He was sure that the workers would form political parties and run in elections; that this would lead, somehow, to the workers forming their own states and then nationalizing the economy as the beginning of communism.
"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
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