What is Anarcho Hybridism | Ideology explained

This video is a short description of hybridism, also known as anarcho-hybridism which is a modern ideology outlined in the book "Conquest of State". It's an ideogy which aims to achieve socialist anarchism using reformism. It uses market socialism as a transitionary step. Subreddit: reddit.com/r/viki1999 Patreon: patreon.com/viki1999 Twitter: twitter.com/Viki1999Yt E-Mail Address: viki1999mail@gmail.com The book: United States: https://amazon.com/dp/B086PLNJ4N England: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B086PLNJ4N Timestamps 0:00 Introduction/Basics 2:18 Beliefs 5:25 Criticism 6:58 Outro Hello and welcome back to ideology explained, this time we are talking about a brand new ideology which you’ve probably never heard about since it was kinda invented…a bit over a month ago. At least that’s when the book about it came out. It’s anarcho-hybridism or just hybridism. It’s based on this book so if you want to know more, read that. If I had to sum hybridism up quickly, I’d say that hybridism is an anarchist ideology that seeks to achieve anarcho-communism via reformism with market socialism as a transitionary step. It sees itself as what would have happened if Proudhon has made a party. Hybridism seeks to unite the Marxists and anarchists once again like they where 180 years ago or something like that. Pretty ambitious but it’s a plan. The hybrid in “anarcho hybridism” is a hybrid between Marxism and anarchism by the way. The author puts it this way: "Anarcho-Hybridism [...] seeks to have a more pragmatic approach towards achieving the anarchist society, in a synthesis of Marxism and Anarchism, intermixing various ideologies together, making use of Marxist, and anarchist thought alike… whatever works…. Works!" The goal is, much like with any real anarchist ideology, to replace the state with councils and to give the means of production to the working class. But crucially the state is not supposed to be dismantled completely because if there is no state then reactionaries might appear and form a new state. The state should therefore be transformed into a Consultative, Ceremonial, Symbolic and non-hierarchical one. To quote the book: “Hybridists want to change the state from violent to peaceful, from protector of the bourgeois to protector of the proletariat, from hierarchical to non-hierarchical, from bureaucratic to a collective, From centralized to decentralized, from controlling, to being controlled by the people, from authoritarian to consultative, from an aspect of daily life, to a symbolic state, From important, to ceremonial.” Another feature is that unlike state socialism which seeks to give the means of production to the state and has the state be controlled by the working class, hybridism wants both the state and the means of production to be owned by the people and workers directly. It also believes that socialism in one country is an antiquated model in the modern world with our interwoven economies and that it is not realistic to seek a Marxist-Leninist style revolution nowadays because of modern weapon systems. Before anything can happen via reform the anarchists must be in power already. but how do they get there? Essentially electoralism, they want to be elected in a bourgeois democracy. And once they are in power, they will do useful things like educating the people on what anarchism is, reducing the prevalence of the state itself, supporting local communes and slowly transferring more and more power to those. Please note that while anarchist parties are technically an oxymoron, according to anarcho-hybridist ideas they are the only peaceful way of achieving large scale anarchism. Also they are non-hierarchical and all that jam, but yea, they inevitably support electoralism which some anarchists will have a problem with. A core feature of Anarcho-hybridism are worker co-ops. That being factories which are owned by the workers who work there. I think I have a video on those, but it’s old and bad so don’t watch it? Hybridism puts lots of emphasis on co-ops and their economic power. The goal is to slowly phase out capitalist businesses by having worker co-ops compete with them. This is called the economic war. But how would the worker co-ops stand a chance against the global capitalists? That’s where the state comes in. The state would financially support worker co-ops. This means providing funding for them, cutting their taxes, imposing tariffs on foreign competitors, increasing taxes on capitalist, not taxing the income of employees of co-ops. All of those are measures which are supposed to help worker co-ops outcompete capitalist enterprises.

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