Thus, these three principles of Bakunin's revolutionary practice (against
putschism, against participation in bourgeois politics and against national and ethno-racial appeals to unity) may be summarised as 'anti-Blanquism, anti-Bebelism and anti-Bernsteinism'.
The former is utopian and dangerous because it defends practices that undermine the safety and solidarity of the working class (and glorifies spontaneity and
putschism); the latter objectively legitimates the bourgeoisie's attack on superexploited workers, especially black and brown workers.
His crime was denouncing the March Action undertaken by the party against his wishes--an exercise in voluntaristic
putschism that lost the new mass party around a quarter of its members.
The first official meeting of the new central committee, held in Hong Kong in October, issued a circular that criticised isolated risings as
putschism. (21) One of the leaders who attended at least some of this meeting was Ngo Duc Tri, like Ho Chi Minh the son of a well-known scholar and a graduate of a three-year political training course in Moscow.
The system, however, is navigating between the Scylla of a paralyzing and crippling crisis and the Charybdis of
putschism and chaos.
It is true that a small number of former conservatives joined the liberal parties at this time, but that occurred precisely because these conservatives rejected the anti-Semitism, volkisch nationalism and anti-republican
putschism of the new conservative party, the German Nationalists (DNVP).
- that and the rise of the Nazi movement which rejected Ehrhardt's
putschism after the fiasco of its own beer-hall coup in November 1923 in favour of "legal" electoral politics.
After all, Washington, through the C.I.A.one of whose former directors occupies the White House-has accumulated considerable experience with
putschism in, for example, Iran, Indonesia and Chile.