Insurrectionalism

For a short time, insurrectionalism stood on the pedestal previously occupied in Latin America by the foquismo of Che, the people's war of Mao, and the electoral road of Allende.

Those already wary of the party's electoral maneuvers in 1919 further resented the Socialists' calls, after the May 1920 strike failure, to abandon revolutionary insurrectionalism and place all hopes in "le bulletin rouge".

In these situations and others, class-based insurrectionalism, led by vanguard political parties, has been shunned.

The third faction — the TI — sought to steer a middle course between the GPP-TP debate using the strategic concept of insurrectionalism, which asserted that before a Marxist-Leninist state could be established the revolution had to pass through a democratic-popular stage.

Some saw in the Malatesta-Monatte clash nothing but the re-emergence of traditional insurrectionalism over the general strike.

Consciously or not, most local anarchists embraced the Bakuninist view, which had an innate affinity to the revolutionary urgency and insurrectionalism so pervasive in the movement.

Thus, the tactics of insurrectionalism had reached their limits.

Again, I would insist that this is not to explain that insurrectionalism as a mere “expression” of theory, or as derivative from theory, but rather to suggest a convergence in conceptual structure.