Anarchism - a beginners guide (2005)

The Russian revolution, he(Ruehle) noted, provided an excellent opportunity for the workers to take direct control of the revolutionary process through the organization of the soviets. Yet the action of the workers were frustrated largely because Lenin failed to
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understand the real importance of the {soviet} movement for the {socialist} orientation of society. He never learned to know the prerequisites for the freeing of the {workers}... he could not comprehend, not appreciate ... what was most obvious and most ... necessary for the revolutionary struggle for {}, namely that the {} once and for all take their fate in their own hands.

Bakunin argued that anarchist discipline was 'not automatic but volutary and intelligently understood.' ...its whole aim ... consists of the fullest realisation of the liberty of the people.