'Some socialists wanted to work through government, political parties, and the state to seize power. Other socialists saw this as a corruptible reformist effort. Instead, they argued for building socialism from below through direct action, federations, and the expropriation of the means of production. The different sides agreed capitalism had to go and that the state itself was a looming threat, but struggled to find unity in their respective approaches.

This created the division we now know between statist socialism and libertarian socialism, which came to be known as Anarchism. [Note: "Libertarian" should not be confused with the modern-day appropriation of the term by right-wing laissez-faire capitalists who use the word libertar ian for their purposes.]

Libertarian had a different meaning and context then; to this day, some anarchists still hold onto the libertarian-socialist label. Furthermore, some participants of the International faced repression for using the term "anarchist" [Note: this term was first embraced by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]. Self-identifying anarchists of this period began calling themselves such to set themselves apart from other socialists, but this did not mean that they were no longer socialists themselves. Understanding this history also helps clarify the origins of libertarian, or, anarchist communism.'

https://offshootjournal.org/anarchism-or-socialism-a-nonsensical-question/

tankies conflating authoritarianism with the use of violence in the year of the lord 2025

progressive slave owner

by regularcharlotte

"Democracy is quite different from a Republic as well as from Parliamentary Government. The roots of democracy lie not in the form of Government, Parliamentary or otherwise.

A democracy is more than a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living.

The roots of Democracy are to be searched in the social relationship, in the terms of associated life between the people who form a society."

— Dr BR Ambedkar

https://essentialambedkar.wordpress.com/tag/voice-of-america/

"The tendency of writers to create a dichotomy between socialism and anarchism is, I think, both conceptually and historically misleading."

— Brian Morris, Basic Kropotkin:
Kropotkin and the History of Anarchism

"you don't have a marx"

he's not the only one that has critiqued capitalism in the last 150 years 😂😭

"For Karl Marx, the égalitaire, we feel the profoundest respect; as for Karl Marx, the autoritaire, we must consider him an enemy. Liberty said as much in its first issue, and sees no reason to change its mind.

He was an honest man, a strong man, a humanitarian, and the promulgator of much vitally important truth, but on the most vital question of politics and economy he was persistently and irretrievably mistaken."

— Benjamin Tucker

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-tucker-karl-marx-as-friend-and-foe

the bourgeoisie are vanguards, what excellent progress the communist movement has made

red salute! 🫡🫡🫡

"To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquility the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to Fascist barbarians by Stalin."

— Buenaventura Durruti

"This ecosystem of power also nurtures a psychology of brutal competition, not only among those who seek its power, but also among those it represses, twisting them into seeing the world as it does, in terms of power rather than freedom. It violently simplifies our relations with one another into centralized structures and encourages us to struggle to dominate one another.

Statism isolates. Its centralization is just another way to say that power severs and impedes our connectivity. Instead of distributed resilient social networks statism stokes hierarchy and segregation, giving us each fewer options in our relations with others and holding back what is possible on the whole."

https://humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/your-freedom-is-my-freedom-the-premise-of-anarchism/

"In recent years, several state-owned Chinese companies, along with other private Chinese firms, have invested directly or indirectly in Israeli settlements or companies operating within them."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/china-quietly-aiding-israels-settlement-enterprise-how

statists in a nutshell: