Preface from the journal "Heretic":
Despite a couple of brickbats thrown at Marxists by Comrade Vadim Damier (unjustifiably, from our point of view), and also despite a number of other fundamental disagreements with his position, we feel sincere respect for his call on his comrades in IWA-AIT to break firmly with reformism and consistently uphold the revolutionary line of proletarian anarchism.
One philosopher has once told that the one, who doesn't study history, is doomed to repeat its errors. The problem consists just in looking for what was made may be not correctly or not very well in the past. This can give a possibility to avoid some mistakes in the present and in the future.
Of course, it would be unreasonably and conceitedly to give advices to comrades living in a country removed in thousands of kilometers, with quite other situation and with differing conditions of social and workers struggle. But when I turn around back on history of anarcho-syndicalist movement in Spain, I see not only brilliant victories and the Great Revolution, but also certain internal problems. And these problems remain the same throughout all history of heroic CNT.
