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quartz 47 points ago +47 / -0

To be fair, they're communists, not anarchists.

Anarchy has taken on definition of "a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.", but in the true sense of the word it means "no rulers" (like monarchy is one ruler and oligarchy is a small group of rulers).

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11Bignveiny 32 points ago +32 / -0

My theory:

The leftists/commies since the late 1800s to now have always hidden behind the ‘anarchist’ label to get away with their violence, and then use the ‘progressive’ label to push their policies forward.

Remember the media during Trump’s 2017 election, when they warned that large groups of black bloc anarchists were coming to DC? Clearly they were Antifa. I’d wager the “anarchists” that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and President McKinley were actually commies too

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Quentin_X_Zanzibar 6 points ago +6 / -0

Nice run-down of a complicated subject. In my mind anarcho-capitalism is the the theoretical ideal, but I’m not sure you can build a society around it.