I'm an Anarcho-Communist now. Just thought I'd let you know after I re-read this conversation, lol. Also, what do you identify as? I hear you were confused at one stage.
I think you misunderstood Goldman. She means that people are free to choose other sorts of organization if they so desire. People are not forced to live in an anarcho-communist society, if they want, they can live in another type of society, like a mutualist, anarcho-collectivist or anarcho-syndicalist.
Wait... what's so bad about the individual having tastes and desires?
And Peter Kropotkin once said this: "[Anarchism] seeks to establish a certain harmonious compatibility in its midst - not by subjecting all its members to an authority that is fictitiously supposed to represent society, not by trying to establish uniformity, but by urging all men to develop free initiative, free action, free association. It seeks the most complete development of individuality combined with the highest development of voluntary association in all its aspects, in all possible degrees, for all imaginable aims; ever changing, ever modified associations which carry in themselves the elements of their durability and constantly assume new forms which answer best to the multiple aspirations of all."
No, it's a legitimate form of anarchism. It is not Marxist. Emma Goldman one said this: "That being the ideal of Anarchism, its economic arrangements must consist of voluntary productive and distributive associations, gradually developing into free communism, as the best means of producing with the least waste of human energy. Anarchism, however, also recognizes the right of the individual, or numbers of individuals, to arrange at all times for other forms of work, in harmony with their tastes and desires."
I don't know what anarchist communism is... how the hell does it work? Do they just uphold every theory of Marx's except the dictatorship of the proletariat bit or what?
Well, I am kinda confused. There's so much to chose from, how do I know what would work best? Anarcho-communism is the same as anarchist communism. Emma Goldman, Errico Malatesta and Peter Kropotkin are famous anarcho-communists.
Sounds confusing. In all honesty, I have no fucking clue what anarcho-communism even is.
Yes, I still would say that's the school I'm most influenced by. However, I'm uncertain at the moment of what school of anarchism is the best, thus I don't feel fully comfortable with calling myself a "mutualist" anymore. I'm still an anarchist, but at the moment, I'll probably look more into anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-collectivism, anarchism without adjectives and mutualism, to see what seems to be best. I might even look into anarcho-communism, although I'm a bit skeptical about that. Ultimately, I'm firstly an anarchist, secondly a libertarian socialist and thirdly a free market supporter. I'm not as sure as a mutualist free market is better than an anarcho-syndicalist "market" or an anarcho-collectivist "market". I'm an anarchist, but I'm not fully sure which kind.
Weren't you a mutualist?
