Why do anarchists hate libertarians so much? Aren't they supposed to be the same thing?
@newt "anarchism" is when communists try to have their cake (freedom) and eat it too (no capitalism, racism, sexism, etc. allowed) ... it's impossible because it requires a centralized authority to ban all the stuff you don't like.
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Kropotkin was very much critical of the state involvement, if he isn't one of the most influential figures of anarchism, then who is?
@m0xee @newt the ideology that self-described anarchists in the west subscribe to isn't pure Kropotkinism, it's infused with social progressivism as described above
@genmaicha @m0xee @newt I really liked Michael malice’s “Anarchist handbook”, which is an anthology of anarchist essays
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Yeah, I agree, but not in every country and not every community is like that — same as with libertarians. I think that sometimes we have to go back to basics and to those who might be considered the founders of the ideas, instead playing along with the left-right discourse, which in my opinion has hit a dead end and serves no other purpose than setting people against each other.
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@genmaicha
Hayek might've explored the economic aspects more, while Kropotkin — the "political" side of things, but otherwise the ideas don't seem incompatible 🤷
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