Isn't there a serious overstatement that all anarchists have always been communists going on? All anarchists are socialists but there has always been non communists strands. To deny them as part of the history of anarchism seems absurd.
I agree, but i think history is the crucial word here, none communist anarchists are now near enough none existent, and really any one who claims to be an anarchist but not a communists hasn't really thought about things and most likely is not active in any way in real life (excluding those anarchists who are just getting started)
So do I, dog. That's no excuse to be sloppy with language (although I'm sure it would be entirely in line with our stultifying culture and what our UK comrades expect of us
).
Why do I say you are a capitalist? One of your first posts on this forum was about starting an "anarchist organization" that would tolerate all kinds of anarchism, including so-called "free market anarchism". When some people criticized you for including them, you said:
How am I supposed to interpret this? You claim you are an "anti-capitalist" but "respect" AnCap ideas and regard them as part of the same political tendency as you. If you were actually an "anti capitalist" you would be a harsh critic and a staunch opponent of such oxymoronic ideologies as "anarcho capitalism". An anarcho capitalist society, granting their premises, would quickly harden into a society made up of a few competing capitalist cartels enforcing their rule ruthlessly through private armies. It essentially amounts to capitalism with the repressive functions of the state privatized and the recuperative functions of the state totally eliminated. Anarcho capitalism is capitalism plain and simple, and should fill anyone who is against the class system with disgust.
Anyway, you call yourself "anti-capitalist" but also deny being a communist... I'm not sure how you envision things working after the revolution, but if you are not a communist then I imagine your vision for a free, "anarchist" society includes one or more of the following elements:
-wage labor
-money
-commodity exchange
-strict division of labor
-private ownership MOP
-"public" ownership of MOP run like a employee owned corporation (of which there are several currently operating, so just from observing these you should come to the conclusion that self management of capitalism, no matter what it is called, is not liberatory in any way).
If you think any of these elements of capitalism should be preserved after the revolution, you are a capitalist (although perhaps a nice fuzzy variety of capitalist, like a Mutualist). If you think they should all be abolished, you are a communist.