This page is about the ideology referred to achieving Communism as an end goal. For other uses, see Communism.
Anarcho-Communism (AnCom) is an anarchist socialist and usually Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination culturally progressive ideology inhabiting the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination bottom left corner of the political compass. It believes in the abolition of the state and all structures of capital, leading to a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination stateless, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination classless, and post-monetary society based on Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Direct Democracy. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Some forms of Anarcho-Communism are heavily influenced by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Egoism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination radical individualism, believing Anarcho-Communism to be the best social system for the realization of individual freedom (although this is HIGHLY contended within various anarchist groups, especially on the debate of morality, ethics, individual freedoms, identity politics, localism vs internationalism, freedom of speech, and organization). Many AnComs view Anarcho-Communism as a way of reconciling the gap between the individual and society. Although even this is highly contested.
History
Creation
Although proto-anarchism has been seen in various societies in various forms throughout history, the main understanding of Anarcho-Communism as it is often known today first arose and developed out of radical Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination socialist currents after the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination French Revolution. The works of Russian political theorist and activist Peter Kropotkin and took importance later as Anarcho-Communist theory expanded on and developed pro-organizational and insurrectionary anti-organizational sections, such as those by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Collectivist Mikhail Bakunin. Anarcho-Communism has actually had places in history, the best-known examples of which are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution, where anarchists such as Nestor Makhno worked to create and defend anarcho-communism through the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine from 1919 before being conquered by the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bolsheviks in 1921.
Spanish Civil War
Through the efforts and influence of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Spanish anarchists during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War starting in 1936, Anarcho-Communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia as well as in the stronghold of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchists Catalonia before being crushed by the combined forces of the Francoist Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nationalists (the regime that won the war), Nationalist allies such as Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Adolf Hitler and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Benito Mussolini and even Spanish Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Communist Party repression (backed by the Soviet Union) as well as economic and armaments blockades from the capitalist states and the Spanish Republic itself governed by the Republicans. However, some anarchists, such as the Friends of Durriti group, opposed the CNT-FAI for collaborating with the liberal government in the war.
Expansion
The Anarcho-Communist movement expanded much more heavily in the post-war era, with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchist movements popping up all over continental Europe, developing from anti-fascist resistance. The main movements were established both in Italy and France, where a sizeable following after the turmoil of the Second World War. In the post Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fascist Italy, the Italian Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchist Movement was formed right after the end of the war in 1945. It was based on "a Libertarian Party with anarchist theory and practice adapted to the new economic, political and social reality of post-war Italy, with an internationalist outlook and effective presence in the workplaces." On top of this, The International of Anarchist Federations (IAF/IFA) was founded during an international anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European anarchist federations of France (Fédération Anarchiste), Italy (Federazione Anarchica Italiana) and Spain (Federación Anarquista Ibérica) as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.
Modern Day
In contemporary times, Libertarian Communism was a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialist journal founded in 1974 and produced in part by members of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialist Party of Great Britain. The synthesist Italian Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchist Federation and the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Platformist Federation of Anarchist Communists continue existing today in Italy but Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Insurrectionary Anarchism continues to be relevant as the recent establishment of the Informal Anarchist Federation shows.
Foundations and Beliefs
Anarcho-Communism is a exceptionally far left ideology. Like most forms of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchy, Anarcho-Communism seeks to abolish all unnecessary hierarchy, including "the state." Generally among Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchist circles, what constitutes as an unnecessary hierarchy is any social hierarchy which cannot be logically justified. The abolition of these hierarchies is considered to be the true definition of "Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchy", although this differs amongst Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
Personality and Behaviour
AnCom is a very emotional individual. He has an extremely vengeful passion for revolution and has a high amount of empathy with oppressed groups. However, this can also make him difficult to disagree with. He is very concerned with the abolition of the state as well as private property and goes ballistic whenever any other ideology questions his resolve. Although being ideologically similar in economic terms to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Socialism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism, he doesn't hesitate to vehemently criticize them for being statist.
AnCom is typically written as a rebellious teen who likes to take recreational drugs, especially marijuana. He especially likes vandalism and destruction of private property.
AnCom, despite constantly critiquing Marxism & especially its descendants, will defend them when Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalism does the same.
Stylistic Notes
AnCom is often very aggressive and passionate in conversation, and has a habit of making loud screeching noises after hearing Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalist, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reactionary Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Authoritarian comments. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Conservatism Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination calls this "being triggered" because of his stereotypical Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination "SJW" behavior, AnCom is frequently depicted as having an irrational hatred of straight white men. Later portrayals of AnCom have him shouting walls of text, especially when he is attempting to tell a joke which instead comes off as him whining and justifying his beliefs. Said walls of texts are usually random passages or incomprehensible gibberish found on the web or The Conquest Of Bread to save time on comics. His favorite weapon is the Molotov cocktail and he has a tendency to use it a lot.
He's usually seen with a bat or hood. He also wants to be a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination cat, for some reason.
How to Draw
- Draw a ball with a black outline.
- Draw a line in a lighter shade of black diagonally through the ball.
- Fill the space below with the same color and the space above with Red.
- Add the eyes.
- (Optional) Add cat ears and a bandana with the anarchy symbol
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
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Red | #FF0000 | 255, 0, 0 | |
Black | #141414 | 20, 20, 20 |
Relationships
Comrades
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarchism - Анархия-мама сынов своих любит, Анархия-мама не продаст, Свинцовым огнём врага приголубит, Анархия-мама за нас!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neozapatismo - Hell yeah! Praxis!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Platformism - Even more Praxis!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Socialism - I may be more radical than you, but we're both on the same side in the fight against statism and capitalism.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Confederalism - Rojava might not technically be anarchist in the strict sense, but their revolution has shown the world that libertarian socialism can not only survive, but thrive in the fight against literal islamo-fascism.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Babouvism - Based granddad.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Eco-Anarchism - Friend who hates capitalism and authority.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Municipalism - The ecological crisis is a social crisis. Shame you later abandoned anarchism because of infighting with Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Him over so-called "lifestylism".
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Queer Anarchism - Gender roles are oppressive social constructs!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcha-Feminism - Let's be honest, the Venn Diagram between us two is a circle at this point.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Syndicalism - I don't think industrial unions are the end all be all of the workers since we have to take agrarian and professional workers into account but you're cool anyway. Also many of you support me as an end goal.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Council Communism - I like that you give workers direct control and that you dislike electoralism, but chill on the hierarchy.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Gift Economy - Best economic system.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Soulism - A bit too much weed there, bro, like, I'm not buying you more.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Indigenous Anarchism - Many of my Western followers are (unfortunately) mixed on you. But outside of the West, we fully support your fight for Indigenous Liberation!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Post-Colonial Anarchism - Abolish the colonial state!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Independence Anarchism - Contrary to many, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination this asshole in particular, I am not inherently opposed to certain forms of nationalism, as long as it truly fights for the rights of self-determination for the oppressed and colonized against imperial statehood and settler-colonialism, while opposing any the "nation-state" and supremacism.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationAnarcho-Collectivism - It was a mistake for Marx to kick you out.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Insurrectionary Anarchism - Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (But why do you like Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination him so much and increasingly seem to prefer him over me?)
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Insurrectionary Anarchism - Sorry, but your modern variants became soft, and now we will finish off what you're predecessors started... its insurrection time!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Black Anarchism - Let's bash white supremacists' heads in!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Marxism - Fellow anti-authoritarian communist and a true comrade, though he’s critical of me sometimes.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ego-Communism - Emma Goldman is based though you are a little too wacky.
Frenemies
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Left Communism - You're much preferable to a tankie, I guess. But please, for Kropotkin's sake, get off that armchair.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Progressivism - I just wish most of your followers would realize it's ok to own a gun.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Marxism - We need to jump straight to a stateless classless society with no transitional state. Also, you expelled Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bakunin from the First Internationale.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mutualism - "It is not the product of his or her labor that the worker has a right to, but to the satisfaction of his or her needs, whatever may be their nature."
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anti-Fascism - I like you and all at least in principle, but some of your followers are too tankie, libby, or dogmatic, and many of my fellow anarchists are mixed on you as an actually effective force to spread anarchist ideas and praxis. Still not a full-on terrorist group though. Just please try to attack actual fascists and not innocent people.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Egoism - Max Stirner was cool. Still, stop being such a dipshit!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ochlocracy - Historically you are a wildcard. You have both been my greatest ally and my greatest enemy. Just why do so many self-proclaimed anarchists like Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination him and activists on Twitter like you so much?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Post-Leftism - Why do you dislike me so much? Aside from the obvious economic discourse, it's not my fault many of my Twitter followers are obsessed with idpol.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Agrarian Socialism - It's good seeing the peasantry have direct power, but why can't you work better in a factory? Don't you realize Industrialism is the key to communism?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Georgism - Capitalist, but also a landlord-hating cat. Meow!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Revolutionary Progressivism - I learned a lot from you, but please don't give #woke capitalists a free pass! Goldman, Magón, Marcos, and Durruti are based though..
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anarcho-Pacifism - Pacifism won´t work. The Revolution of the proletariat is necessary to fight statism, let alone class strugle.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination World Federalism - Your whole global utopia of cooperation and alleged anti-colonialism stance is pretty based, but you aren't radical enough, and I don't like how many of your followers are a bunch of filthy neolibs. Also, cool it on the one-world government/state thing.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anationalism - Similar to above, but a fellow anarchist, but Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination he tells me you want to destroy people's diverse backgrounds and languages to promote unity. Which is kinda neo-imperialist cringe.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Left-Rothbardianism - Better than ancap, I guess... but markets and private property are cringe.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Titoism - Cringe authoritarian socialist. But throwing fashies into pits!? BASED AS F*CK!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Religious Anarchism - No gods, no masters.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Atheism - No gods, no masters.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Democratic Socialism - You're pretty tolerable for a statist I guess... though tell some of your self-described American supporters to cut it out with that "nORwAy is A sOciaLISt utOPIa!!!" bullshit and move further away from succdem, reformism, and liberal statism.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mao-Spontex - Pretty based however you seem to like Mao too much though.
To the hospital!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fascism - FUCKING FASH! I'M GONNA BASH YOUR FUCKING SKULLS IN!!! PREPARE FOR MY BAT!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Stalinism - RED FASH!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Juche - ANOTHER RED FASH!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Strasserism - YET ANOTHER RED FASH!! Who else should I add to this list?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Bolshevism - LITERAL RED FASH!!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Syndicalism - ANOTHER LITERAL RED FASH!!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Fourth Theory - The hell is this?! Rebranded Nazbol??
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Tankie - State capitalist! Also, fuck off! I ain't going to be your pawn for your authoritarian goals, I don't give a fuck if you say you will "dissolve". You are one of the reasons people across the world hate communists like us.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Leninism - Aren’t you just Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination tankie again?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Trotskyism - You destroyed Makhnovia and crushed the Kronstadt rebellion! F*ck you, tankie!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Maoism - Way too totalitarian and imperialist, and the way you led your country let this Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination red fash take over.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Dengism - You're not a communist, you're a state-capitalist Nazbol that likes to genocide Uyghurs, Mongolians, and Tibetans!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Christian Theocracy - I had no regrets about demolishing your churches in Catalonia.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nerdy Cappie - Oxymoron; you need a state to enforce capitalism. This ideology is just Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neo-Feudalism but enforced by the majority.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Capitalism - EXPLOITATIVE PIGS! YOU GET THE WALL FIRST!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hoppeanism - Racist Ancap!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Objectivism - An ideology built on unironic hatred of the poor.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reactionary Socialism - You're not a real socialist, you're just a reactionary, more like Neo-Feudalism. Wait, you actually admit it? At least you're honest unlike my Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination c*ppie brother...
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neolibtard - mOrE fEmAlE drOnE pIlOts. I'm A wAr crImInAl bUt it's Ok bEcAUsE thE sOldIERs ArE gAy!1!!1!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neoconservatism - War criminal but honest about it.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination State Liberalism - Fascism with pink paint. Do you really think we'll side with you?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Capitalism - Racism + Statism + Capitalism + Reactionarism. Literally my opposite.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Authoritarianism - You claim to protect the common man, yet you are brided by the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination bourgeoisie to oppress the poor working class! EAT A MOLOTOV!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Plutocracy - SMASH THE BOURGEOISIE!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Succdem - How many times do I have to tell you? Electoralism is bullshit! You're just like any other authoritarian statist with red paint.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Welfare Chauvinism, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Authoritarianism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Paternalistic Conservatism - Because normal Succdem wasn't bad enough...
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Anarchism - You're doing a terrible job at hiding your fascistic beliefs.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Authoritarian Capitalism - Also my opposite.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Corporatocracy - One of the worst things ever.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nazism - Literally Hitler. And I mean "literally" literally.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Alt-Right - Aren’t you just Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Nazi again? And no, I don't call everyone I disagree with a Nazi, you Nazi!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Showa Statism - I'll never forgive you for invading Manchuria!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Absolute Monarchism - NO GODS! NO KINGS! NO MASTERS!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Police Statism - ACAB! 1312
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination White Nationalism - NEO-NAZI CHUD!! PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR SKULLS BASHED IN!!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Social Darwinism - NOOOOO!!! YOU ARE MISINTERPRETING DARWIN!!! READ KROPOTKIN!!!!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Eco-Fascism - An eco-friendly fascist is still a fascist.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Esoteric Fascism - Take your pills, schizo!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Francoism - YOU KILLED OUR ANSYND COMRADES IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, FASCIST DICATOR!! Oh, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination tankie didn´t do anything to help.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Trumpism - White supremacist and police bootlicker! Quit simping to the oligarchs and fake populists.
Still kind of jealous his supporters managed to storm the Capitol and tried to overthrow the government. - Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Timocracy - Fuck all landlords! Mao might be a tankie but he showed you what you deserve!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reactionary Liberalism - I like nothing more than throwing molotovs at you.
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Reactionary Libertarianism - Ancap is that you?
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination British Fascism - I had fun beating you up back then fascist pig!
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Thatcherism - F*ck you, statist neoliberal witch!
Further Information
Literature
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationPeter Kropotkin
- The Conquest of Bread
- Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
- Modern Science and Anarchy
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
- The State: Its Historic Role
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationEmma GoldmanError creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Anarchism and Other Essays
- My Disillusionment in Russia
- My Further Disillusionment in Russia
- The Individual, Society, and the State
- Red Emma Speaks
- Living My Life
Others
- Anarchy
- Homage to Catalonia
- The End of Anarchism?
- The Method of Freedom
- Michael Bakunin - Selected Writings
- Post-Scarcity Anarchism
- The Anarchist Library
- Libcom.org
- The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Wikipedia
- Anarcho-communism
- Free association (Marxism and Anarchism)
- Peter Kropotkin
- Nestor Makhno Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Gift economy
- Errica Malatesta
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Pigasus the Immortal Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
- Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Julien Coupat
Videos
- How Anarchism Works (playlist) by NonCompete
- Intro to Anarchy: Power and Violence | Philosophy Tube by Philosophy Tube
- Anarchism in 4 Parts (playlist) by Libertarian Communist Platform
- POST-CAPITALISM: A Detailed Look at How It Could Work by LuckyBlackCat
Online Communities
- r/Anarchism
- r/COMPLETEANARCHY
- r/anarchocommunism
- r/LibertarianLeft
- r/Anarchy101
- Lemmy.ml/c/Anarchism
Gallery
Comics
Art
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