In his recent post C_Clayton_Jones offered this description of anarchism:
How is that a definition of Anarchism? How is that ANY different from the most simple definition of pure Communism/Marxism?
Or are those promoting an anarchistic society on this thread actually promoting the Marxist model but with a more politically palatable label?
(Disclaimer: I don't think the member was actually promoting that as the preferred definition of Anarchism but only using it as an illustration of the various definitions that exist.)
Anarchism is a most misunderstood set of ideas. It is constantly portrayed as meaning chaos and violence. Nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists believe in creating a classless society. They oppose capitalism as a system that puts the profits of a small minority of bosses before the needs of the vast majority. It is a system based on the exploitation of workers, a system that inevitably causes poverty starvation and war. Anarchists oppose authority in the sense of opposing the 'right' of any small minority to have power over everyone else. They oppose the State (meaning government, army, police, courts) as an institution whose purpose is to enforce the will of a minority on the majority.
An Anarchist Perspective on the Spanish Civil War
How is that a definition of Anarchism? How is that ANY different from the most simple definition of pure Communism/Marxism?
Or are those promoting an anarchistic society on this thread actually promoting the Marxist model but with a more politically palatable label?
(Disclaimer: I don't think the member was actually promoting that as the preferred definition of Anarchism but only using it as an illustration of the various definitions that exist.)
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