Collectivist Anarchism (Do It Yourself)

by Francois_Tremblay , Monday, December 03, 2007, 18:53 @ anarchistalex

A collectivist Anarchist is someone who approaches Anarchism with collectivist values (i.e. puts emphasis on equality and fairness instead of individual freedom and rights) and with collectivist priorities (i.e. want to take down capitalism more eagerly than they want to take down the State itself). Ideologies that graft statist ideas onto Anarchy, like anarcho-socialism, anarcho-syndicalism and anarcho-communism, tend to be of this category.

Basically, collectivism and individualism are just two very general ways of describing people's approaches to Anarchy. They help distinguish two very different modes of discourse, which do not mesh very well and as such I don't really try to mix the two, although both have much to learn from each other.

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