Makhno didn't write "the platform" until after the civil war, as sort of a "what we wished we'd done."
That said, I don't think you influence people by separating yourself from them, but by engaging in struggle with them. The task isn't to create a purer "anarchist" line, it's to engage baby anarchists in anarchist projects so they become radicalized through common struggle with fellow workers, non-humans, and more experienced anarchists. BLM did more for actual anarchist consciousness than any anarchist vanguard ever could.
It's not about creating a purer line it's about creating a beacon to gather likeminded anarchists into a space where they produce less polluted content educate in an anarchist way that is distinguished from the existing current.
Among communists we have the average socialist but then we have the dedicated revolutionary vanguard - party members. These party members aren't "purer" socialists they are just well educated ones taking on the task in an organised way. It is necessary to distinguish them from the average socialist though in order to gather the like-minded ones together so they can actually achieve the job they set out to do of guiding the movement as a whole.
Obviously the idea of forming an anarchist party is bullshit but setting apart some sort of group that functions as a vanguard is important. This group does not exist right now, the entire movement is adrift at sea and the only vanguard doing real work with it are the CIA.
My point is that you can't get these like minded people together without giving them a name so they can organise around that name.
Makhno didn't write "the platform" until after the civil war, as sort of a "what we wished we'd done."
That said, I don't think you influence people by separating yourself from them, but by engaging in struggle with them. The task isn't to create a purer "anarchist" line, it's to engage baby anarchists in anarchist projects so they become radicalized through common struggle with fellow workers, non-humans, and more experienced anarchists. BLM did more for actual anarchist consciousness than any anarchist vanguard ever could.
It's not about creating a purer line it's about creating a beacon to gather likeminded anarchists into a space where they produce less polluted content educate in an anarchist way that is distinguished from the existing current.
Among communists we have the average socialist but then we have the dedicated revolutionary vanguard - party members. These party members aren't "purer" socialists they are just well educated ones taking on the task in an organised way. It is necessary to distinguish them from the average socialist though in order to gather the like-minded ones together so they can actually achieve the job they set out to do of guiding the movement as a whole.
Obviously the idea of forming an anarchist party is bullshit but setting apart some sort of group that functions as a vanguard is important. This group does not exist right now, the entire movement is adrift at sea and the only vanguard doing real work with it are the CIA.
My point is that you can't get these like minded people together without giving them a name so they can organise around that name.
Educated anarchists working together in an organized way already exists lol. It's called Earth First! and the I.W.W.