Especifismo

Especifismo (English: specifism) is one of the two main forms of anarchist praxis championed by FARJ (Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro) and other South American anarchist organisations, the other being social insertion. Especifismo emerged as a result of anarchist experiences in South America over the last half of the 20th century starting with the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU), which was founded in 1956 by anarchists who saw the need for an organisation which was specifically anarchist.

Especifismo has been summarised as:

• 1) The need for specifically anarchist organisation built around a unity of ideas and praxis.
• 2) The use of the specifically anarchist organisation to theorise and develop strategic political and organising work.
• 3) Active involvement and building of autonomous and popular social movements, called “social insertion.”

Other organisations that propound especifismo include the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha (FAG), the Federação Anarquista Cabocla (FACA), the Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (FARJ), the Columna Libertaria Joaquin Penina (Joaquin Penina) Libertarian Column) from Rosario, Argentina, the Columna Libertaria Errico Malatesta from Buenos Aires, and the Red Libertaria de Buenos Aires (RLBA), also from Argentina. Non-South American organisations include the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front in South Africa and Common Struggle in the United States. Especifismo is considered to have come to broadly similar conclusions to The Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) leading to the argument that it is properly considered a new form of platformism.

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