I have only heard that Machno was an anarchist, and it seems he also formed the “Black Army.” The description on Wikipedia is quite abstract, saying he was an “anarchist revolutionary”; I couldn’t find any related books about Machno on ZLibrary. So I want to ask everyone, what kind of productive relations and regime did Machno aim to establish, and which class did it represent? What actions did he himself take?
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Volume III of the History of the International Communist Movement, the Russian Civil War section
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In fact, some content from the Liberal Encyclopedia shows that this person is a thorough anti-communist.\n\n\n\n\n\n
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I looked it up online, and in 1918 he established the “Free Territory” in southern Ukraine, organizing an armed force called the “Black Army.” Although he opposed Tsarist rule, he also did not accept the discipline of the Soviet, repeatedly rebelling against the Soviet government. Machno’s “counter-revolutionary form of petty-bourgeois anarchism” represents the class of petty-bourgeoisie, small farmers, and rich farmers who did not accept Soviet transformation (at that time, Ukraine indeed had a dispersed small-farming economy). He proposed “local autonomy,” “land to the peasants, factories managed by workers,” opposing the Soviet planned economy and proletarian dictatorship. He wanted to restore a society based on small production, which was naturally impossible to achieve; history demands progress forward. Ultimately, Machno went into exile abroad.
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I think this speech should be permanently kept here so that future generations can know the great achievements of these clowns and see the true face of these leftist circle people.
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Is that the group of Magno bandits from “How the Steel Was Tempered” during the assembly and movement of the First Red Army Cavalry (at this time preparing to counterattack the Polish White Army)? I read about them in the book before and wanted to ask.
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