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If you treat the word anarchism as "stateless society", then anarcho-capitalism is anarchism. If you treat the word anarchism as "anarcho-communism", then you

If you treat the word anarchism as "stateless society", then anarcho-capitalism is anarchism. If you treat the word anarchism as "anarcho-communism", then you are right. Even from historical perspective, individual anarchism is almost as old, as communitarian.

tokenizer 13y ago
Thanks. Anarchists need to come together to champion the real political spectrum we all care about; authoritarianism versus libertarianism. I think many anarchists get caught up in high level theory when really, the best thing we could do would be to organize and communicate towards common goals.
rmchugh 13y ago
if you think etymology is more important than the historical tradition, then anarchism might as well be anarcho-capitalism, Stirnerism, Zen Buddhism or whatever else you can imagine. If you want to define anarchism as a political tradition, than it cannot be anything other than a libertarian current within the greater workers' movement that reached its peak together with syndicalism in the early part of the 20th century. http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/black-flame-the-revolutionary-class-politics-of-anarchism-and-syndicalism-%E2%80%94-book-excerpt/ http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/black-flame-the-r...
eli_gottlieb 13y ago
Individualist anarchism is still anti-capitalist.
collyw 13y ago
http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secF1.html http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secF1.html "Anarcho"-capitalists claim to be anarchists because they say that they oppose government. As such, as noted in the last section, they use a dictionary definition of anarchism. However, this fails to appreciate that anarchism is a political theory, not a dictionary definition
- mike_esspe 13y ago
  So his claim is that anarchism = absence of government + no rent and profit. It's not a common definition nowadays. By the way anarcho-capitalism is compatible top down with other form of more strict anarchism. You can make a voluntary anarcho-communistic society inside anarcho-capitalistic society.

tokenizer 13y ago

Thanks. Anarchists need to come together to champion the real political spectrum we all care about; authoritarianism versus libertarianism. I think many anarchists get caught up in high level theory when really, the best thing we could do would be to organize and communicate towards common goals.

rmchugh 13y ago

if you think etymology is more important than the historical tradition, then anarchism might as well be anarcho-capitalism, Stirnerism, Zen Buddhism or whatever else you can imagine. If you want to define anarchism as a political tradition, than it cannot be anything other than a libertarian current within the greater workers' movement that reached its peak together with syndicalism in the early part of the 20th century. http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/black-flame-the-revolutionary-class-politics-of-anarchism-and-syndicalism-%E2%80%94-book-excerpt/ http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/black-flame-the-r...

eli_gottlieb 13y ago

Individualist anarchism is still anti-capitalist.

collyw 13y ago

http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secF1.html http://www.spunk.org/library/intro/faq/sp001547/secF1.html "Anarcho"-capitalists claim to be anarchists because they say that they oppose government. As such, as noted in the last section, they use a dictionary definition of anarchism. However, this fails to appreciate that anarchism is a political theory, not a dictionary definition

mike_esspe 13y ago
So his claim is that anarchism = absence of government + no rent and profit. It's not a common definition nowadays. By the way anarcho-capitalism is compatible top down with other form of more strict anarchism. You can make a voluntary anarcho-communistic society inside anarcho-capitalistic society.