Leigh Kendall
@leighkendall.bsky.social
Director of Public Relations, Australian Citizens for the Abolition of Billionaires. Advocate for Universal Basic Services. A member of the Essendon Football Club and the Melbourne North affiliate of ASF-IWA.
No you don’t. Trump self-identifies as a freedom fighter. The aim of Marxist-Leninism is not communism it is the conquest of State power. It makes more sense to call them reformists if not capitalists. Communism will be free (anarchism) or not at all.
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
No you don’t. Trump self-identifies as a freedom fighter. The aim of Marxist-Leninism is not communism it is the conquest of State power. It makes more sense to call them reformists if not capitalists. Communism will be free (anarchism) or not at all.
There is not now nor has there ever been a ‘free market’. No market can exist without the State and its statutory authorities. Even Adam Smith understood this.
Anarchism seeks to replace the govt of people with the administration of things. This means the abolition of money, markets and property.
Anarchism seeks to replace the govt of people with the administration of things. This means the abolition of money, markets and property.
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
There is not now nor has there ever been a ‘free market’. No market can exist without the State and its statutory authorities. Even Adam Smith understood this.
Anarchism seeks to replace the govt of people with the administration of things. This means the abolition of money, markets and property.
Anarchism seeks to replace the govt of people with the administration of things. This means the abolition of money, markets and property.
So do most people. For most people communism means totalitarian dictatorship. Hence, the need is felt to talk of ‘real communism’ (which is anarchism). Using ‘ancom’ instead of anarchism only makes sense from the perspective of authoritarianism. This why its use should be abandoned for clarity.
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So do most people. For most people communism means totalitarian dictatorship. Hence, the need is felt to talk of ‘real communism’ (which is anarchism). Using ‘ancom’ instead of anarchism only makes sense from the perspective of authoritarianism. This why its use should be abandoned for clarity.
It would also follow that there is no such thing as ‘authoritarian communism’ and consequently no such thing as ‘anarcho-communism’. I.e. for ‘ancom’ to make any sense you would have to accept the possibility of ‘authcom’. Anarcho-syndicalism is the method that determines the outcome.
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It would also follow that there is no such thing as ‘authoritarian communism’ and consequently no such thing as ‘anarcho-communism’. I.e. for ‘ancom’ to make any sense you would have to accept the possibility of ‘authcom’. Anarcho-syndicalism is the method that determines the outcome.
How can that be if the method determines the outcome? If anarchism is the only real communism it follows that the only real communism is anarchism. Therefore anarchism is the noun not an adjective.
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
How can that be if the method determines the outcome? If anarchism is the only real communism it follows that the only real communism is anarchism. Therefore anarchism is the noun not an adjective.
But it was really bad if you were a sparrow.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
But it was really bad if you were a sparrow.
If ‘Anarcho-communism’ is the only real communism then real communism is anarchism so why pretend there is such a thing as ‘authoritarian communism’? Why use ‘anarcho-communism’ when anarchism will suffice?
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If ‘Anarcho-communism’ is the only real communism then real communism is anarchism so why pretend there is such a thing as ‘authoritarian communism’? Why use ‘anarcho-communism’ when anarchism will suffice?
Diverse enough to include ‘Anarcho-capitalism’ or ‘Nationalist Anarchism’?
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Diverse enough to include ‘Anarcho-capitalism’ or ‘Nationalist Anarchism’?
Ok, so what is difference between individualist anarchism and socialist anarchism?
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Ok, so what is difference between individualist anarchism and socialist anarchism?
No kidding. But to pass precursors of anarchism as anarchists only causes confusion and heads down the path of anarchism being anything anyone says it is. This has the effect of rendering anarchism without meaning which appears to be the design. In whose interests?
September 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
No kidding. But to pass precursors of anarchism as anarchists only causes confusion and heads down the path of anarchism being anything anyone says it is. This has the effect of rendering anarchism without meaning which appears to be the design. In whose interests?
On the contrary, they’re the only ones worth reading. In English; Meltzer and Dolgoff. I made this point before. Try reading ‘Anarchism: Arguments For and Against’ by Meltzer.
September 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
On the contrary, they’re the only ones worth reading. In English; Meltzer and Dolgoff. I made this point before. Try reading ‘Anarchism: Arguments For and Against’ by Meltzer.
The same can be said of ‘individualist anarchism’. How is it not a re-brand?
September 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The same can be said of ‘individualist anarchism’. How is it not a re-brand?
Ok, presumably you can explain how ‘ideological taxonomy’ creates hierarchy. How can hierarchy be separated from capitalism?
September 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Ok, presumably you can explain how ‘ideological taxonomy’ creates hierarchy. How can hierarchy be separated from capitalism?
You appear to have ignored my previous post about working people deciding what works for them and what doesn’t.
September 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
You appear to have ignored my previous post about working people deciding what works for them and what doesn’t.
‘Own kind of gentrification’ how would you define gentrification?
September 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
‘Own kind of gentrification’ how would you define gentrification?
Tucker denounced anarchism in favour of ‘egoism’. Neither Stirner himself nor any of his contemporaries referred to him as an anarchist. He was declared an anarchist by Eltzbacher - actually a judge.
September 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Tucker denounced anarchism in favour of ‘egoism’. Neither Stirner himself nor any of his contemporaries referred to him as an anarchist. He was declared an anarchist by Eltzbacher - actually a judge.
You just said ‘Anarcho-capitalism is not anarchism’ how is this not ‘gate-keeping’?
September 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
You just said ‘Anarcho-capitalism is not anarchism’ how is this not ‘gate-keeping’?
…his sexist attitudes and mutualism. This is why mutualism is not a ‘strain’ of anarchism and to suggest it is ist to erase the working-class from what it created. The retrospective awarding of the title to people before 1840 has the same purpose and effect.
But gentrifiers are gonna gentrify.
But gentrifiers are gonna gentrify.
September 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
…his sexist attitudes and mutualism. This is why mutualism is not a ‘strain’ of anarchism and to suggest it is ist to erase the working-class from what it created. The retrospective awarding of the title to people before 1840 has the same purpose and effect.
But gentrifiers are gonna gentrify.
But gentrifiers are gonna gentrify.
Consequently, it comes to mean nothing. Anarchism, as created by the workers of the world through their praxis, takes from the philosophers what is found to be useful and rejects what is not. Anarchism took the name applied and the idea of federalism from Proudhon but rejected his…
September 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Consequently, it comes to mean nothing. Anarchism, as created by the workers of the world through their praxis, takes from the philosophers what is found to be useful and rejects what is not. Anarchism took the name applied and the idea of federalism from Proudhon but rejected his…
Tucker sought to harness the authenticity and cachet of anarchism to justify a rejection of taxation. From here, we trace the journey through Rothbard to the today’s defenders of ‘freedom’. An invention of the ‘anarcho-capitalist’ strain. Soon, anarchism comes to mean anything that anyone wants.
September 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tucker sought to harness the authenticity and cachet of anarchism to justify a rejection of taxation. From here, we trace the journey through Rothbard to the today’s defenders of ‘freedom’. An invention of the ‘anarcho-capitalist’ strain. Soon, anarchism comes to mean anything that anyone wants.
It is the ruling class who imagines that anarchism is the product of a great minds with whom other great minds compete with their ‘strain’ of anarchism. Any early example was Benjamin Tucker who invented ‘individualist anarchism’ creating an entirely phony distinction.
September 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It is the ruling class who imagines that anarchism is the product of a great minds with whom other great minds compete with their ‘strain’ of anarchism. Any early example was Benjamin Tucker who invented ‘individualist anarchism’ creating an entirely phony distinction.
Inventions by self-appointed experts of ‘competing strains’ of anarchism are nothing more than that; inventions. Anarchism is created by that part of the working class that sought to end its exploitation and oppression, not by philosophers not even Proudhon.
September 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Inventions by self-appointed experts of ‘competing strains’ of anarchism are nothing more than that; inventions. Anarchism is created by that part of the working class that sought to end its exploitation and oppression, not by philosophers not even Proudhon.