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    • Sphincter_Spartan [any,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      They would be trying to establish a classless society, but they would not be developing communism as the next mode of production after capitalism.

      except those anarchists who were attempting to establish a communist society

      But that's not how it goes down, historically the two groups are at odds with each other, with those calling themselves anarchists wanting an immediate stateless society and defining themselves against communists

      Violence between communists and anarchists is not just between MLs and anarchists. Trotsky had pretty militant attitudes about anarchists resorting to banditry and even stealing red army supplies, and he disagreed fundamentally with ML beliefs. MLism isn't just wanting to use a state btw, there are other groups willing to use state power with serious disagreements with MLs

    • Sphincter_Spartan [any,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      anarchism isn’t no government, it is (generally depending on ideology) about the abolition of arbitrary hierarchies and power structures, not whatever looney tune idea of total chaos you’ve got going on

      Forgot to respond to this. Anarchism absolutely rejects the state, that is what has defined anarchists during revolutionary times and set them at odds with those willing to set up state power. I know anarchy isn't just chaos, there is a theoretical system of government not involving hierarchy, but anarchists have always resisted the establishment of a state.