Iivana Lemmetyinen on Nostr: npub15th6y…a6nvx I don't see much connection between anarchist communism and ...
npub15th6y0m8c79aq5qg2arvpw955jr4c5cvvvvkrxz70tnh4n282dzq2a6nvx (npub15th…6nvx) I don't see much connection between anarchist communism and mainstream communism, they come from different roots and have nothing in common on the methodological side.
Anarchist communism has more in common with every other branch of anarchism than with mainstream communism. It has no praxis or methodology on its own.
Anarchist communism is a sub-strand in anarchist theory that has mainly to do about the hypotheses on the consumption in the free society, and its main proponents in the classical anarchist movement didn't see it as something that can be implemented immediately, but rather something that could probably be achieved some day after an intermediate period when products of labor have to be distributed in some other way, if the material abundance and moral qualities in pepole that are necessary for anarcho-communism are not there.
That is why it would probably be more beneficial to focus on anarchism and anarchy, because emphasizing communism just put anarchist communists discursively to a sub branch of communism, which stinks so much that it is very hard to wash the stench away.
Of course it also attracts all kinds of authoritarian communists to rub shoulders with anarchists ("we're not that different. we're all leftists and communists after all") and that is an association better to avoid.
Anarchist communism has more in common with every other branch of anarchism than with mainstream communism. It has no praxis or methodology on its own.
Anarchist communism is a sub-strand in anarchist theory that has mainly to do about the hypotheses on the consumption in the free society, and its main proponents in the classical anarchist movement didn't see it as something that can be implemented immediately, but rather something that could probably be achieved some day after an intermediate period when products of labor have to be distributed in some other way, if the material abundance and moral qualities in pepole that are necessary for anarcho-communism are not there.
That is why it would probably be more beneficial to focus on anarchism and anarchy, because emphasizing communism just put anarchist communists discursively to a sub branch of communism, which stinks so much that it is very hard to wash the stench away.
Of course it also attracts all kinds of authoritarian communists to rub shoulders with anarchists ("we're not that different. we're all leftists and communists after all") and that is an association better to avoid.