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ANARCHISM Anorebists see their etrug-le as a revolt against all forms of authority which dominste. the freedom of the individual. Thus,. they ofte:. view the centralized power of a socialist atate as being as sinister es the authotity of a canitalist state. "the best governnent is no govern.ent" is a common anarchist phrases Organizational ly, anarchists believe that the best forms of organization are those which soring out of the spontneosus ‘eonscLousness of the masses. They see all groups which label themselves as vanguard as containing the seeds of state authori- tarianisme Hovever, since anarchists do place an emohasis on Enti-authoritarianiam and spontaneity, they do tend to be seople of action. Hence, it ia no accident that anarchists were some of the most violent enemies of the U.S. government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (jSCCIAL DEMOCRATS Social democrats believe trere is no need for arned strugzis. in order for socialism to come into existence. They plece their hichest vriority on electoral campaigns and reformist trade union organizing. They reject the noticn of a vanguerd party advocating a single political line but rather see the party as a macs orgenization open to various points of vie. The rain heavy against whom social democrats retel is Stalin. _ They s7e the purges of the 30's in Rus. ia as one of history's most heinous crimes and as the inevitable result of aemocratio centralisme In the contemporary left, the New Arceriecan Movement is the most. orominent group of this tyne. The Communist Partys USA fails into this catecory strategically, Bithcush they would firml: reject the latel of sociel denocratse The most obvious exammie of the shortcomings of thas outlook ts what tenpened to Seivador Allende in Gbile because of his orient- etion toward gradual reformist measurcse Trere is an interesting contrast between his strate y and that of the Comiuunists in Portugal where even thouch the gocielist Party (social democrats) were voted into of “ice, the Armed Forces Novement and the Communist Party have been gercdually undermining the pover of the socialists and pushing the country tows the dictatorstip of the proletarict. This stratery on the part of the communists has almost totally eliminated the ‘possibility of @ richt-wing coup in the near futuree