How is anarchy left-wing?

[cyu]

Imagine the heads of various wealthy multi-national companies that get together to determine the economic fate of the planet. They want to do away with power that governments (whether democratic or not) have over them, and replace it with their own power. Can we call these people "anarchists"? After they eliminate "government" control, they, in effect, become the new de-facto government.

This is obviously not the anarchism of Emma Goldman or the Haymarket Martyrs. The original anarchists see capitalists and government officials as in bed with each other - the ruling class. Whether it's the wealthy bribing politicians or buying political favor, or politicians using their power to engage in insider trading or grant favors to their own businesses, the relationship between those with economic power and those with political power is incestuous. And anarchists fought domination from both directions.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_International

Perhaps the clearest differences between the groups emerged over their proposed strategies for achieving their visions of socialism. The anarchists grouped around Bakunin favoured (in Kropotkin's words) "direct economical struggle against capitalism, without interfering in the political parliamentary agitation." Marxist thinking, at that time, focused on parliamentary activity.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian

Anarchist communist philosopher Joseph Déjacque was the first person to describe himself as "libertarian". the first use of the term "libertarian communism" was in November 1880, when a French anarchist congress employed it to more clearly identify its doctrines.

the terms libertarian communism and anarchist communism became synonymous within the international anarchist movement as a result of the close connection they had in Spain

Libertarianism in the United States developed in the 1950s as many with "Old Right" or classical liberal beliefs in the United States began to describe themselves as libertarians.

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

This is obviously not the anarchism of Emma Goldman or the Haymarket Martyrs. The original anarchists see capitalists and government officials as in bed with each other - the ruling class.

the terms libertarian communism and anarchist communism became synonymous within the international anarchist movement as a result of the close connection they had in Spain

Libertarianism in the United States developed in the 1950s as many with "Old Right" or classical liberal beliefs in the United States began to describe themselves as libertarians.

It is indeed rather important here to make a distinction between the term anarchism and the ideology anarchism.
The term is often used to describe a situation without government.
It is the term that is adopted by certain libertarians to describe a market-based world without government (that their DRO's are in fact feodal government bodies is even admitted by other libertarians).

The ideology is much more than that. It is also anti-capitalist, anti-nationalist, anti-imperialist, etcetera.

To avoid confusion i use terms like anti-statist and individual-oriented (as opposed to market-oriented). That last one i tend to use in stead of anti-capitalist because a lot of capitalist tendencies give the others the blame for being corrupted and claim they are the pure capitalists. When i call capitalism they all go mad and get all kinds of side-ways important stuff out which then clouds the discussion.
So i say market-oriented: None of the capitalists can oppose that, now can they?

[Atilla]

It is indeed rather important here to make a distinction between the term anarchism and the ideology anarchism.

What makes the ideology left wing is its goal of destroying hierarchy.

I think the difference between Barbarism and Anarchism should also be highlighted. I predict most laymen think of anarchy to be barbarism.