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      39 hours ago

      Wow. Anarchist and authoritarian in the same sentence. That’s a new level of political illiteracy.

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      Technically speaking, on paper both anarchism and communism advocate for the reduction of central powers that dictate authoritarianism.

      In real world practice however…yeah :/

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          I was referring to the modern day social media “anarchists”, yeah. I am a survivor of r/politicalcompassmemes.

          I think most real world anarchists aren’t arguing on corporate social media for obvious reasons. Therefore it gets co-opted by the libertarian/ancap community, the misrepresentation of the philosophy perpetuates, and then we have comments like the one I was replying to calling it authoritarian. Hence my :/

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            Yeah, that whole wing of politics doesn’t count as anarchism because it doesn’t challenge capitalism which is extremely hierarchical.

            Edit - to anyone reading this who is confused, anarcho communism is essentially the embrace of communist economic organization and the rejection of authoritarianism to get there. Different anarchists have different views about the how but at our core we are against hierarchy in all forms.