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« on: January 23, 2021, 04:44:15 AM »
« edited: January 23, 2021, 04:49:37 AM by Velasco »

Have you ever heard about "libertarian communism", also known as "anarcho-communism"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism

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Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour, social hierarchies and private property (while retaining respect for personal property, along with collectively-owned items, goods and services) in favor of common ownership of the means of production and direct democracy as well as a horizontal network of workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Some forms of anarcho-communism such as insurrectionary anarchism are strongly influenced by egoism and radical individualism, believing anarcho-communism to be the best social system for the realization of individual freedom. Most anarcho-communists view anarcho-communism as a way of reconciling the opposition between the individual and society.

Anarcho-communism developed out of radical socialist currents after the French Revolution, but it was first formulated as such in the Italian section of the First International. The theoretical work of Peter Kropotkin took importance later as it expanded and developed pro-organizationalist and insurrectionary anti-organizationalist sections. To date, the best-known examples of an anarcho-communist society (i.e. established around the ideas as they exist today and achieving worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon) are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution, where anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend anarcho-communism through the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine from 1918 before being conquered by the Bolsheviks in 1921.  

There are few remaining anarchists who spouse "libertarian communism", but I can testify they still exist. On the opposite side of the spectrum, there exist the "anarcho-capitalists" (seemingly anarcho-capitalism is an extreme brand of right-wing libertarianism, while the latter is a more extreme version of the so-called "classic liberalism")

I mean, forget political compass tests. I understand the concepts of "libertarian socialist" or "libertarian communist" are alien to the US political culture, but such ideologies are real and have a long tradition

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