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Do not fill this in! ==== Anarcho-communism ==== {{main|Anarcho-communism}} [[File:Kropotkin2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Peter Kropotkin]], main theorist of [[anarcho-communism]]]] Anarcho-communism is a [[libertarian]] theory of [[anarchism]] and communism which advocates the abolition of the [[State (polity)|state]], [[private property]], and [[capitalism]] in favor of [[common ownership]] of the [[means of production]];<ref name="Mayne">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MkTz6Rq7wUC&pg=PA131 |title=From Politics Past to Politics Future: An Integrated Analysis of Current and Emergent Paradigms |first=Alan James |last=Mayne |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |page=316 |isbn=978-0-275-96151-0 |year=1999 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Anarchism for Know-It-Alls |publisher=Filiquarian Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-59986-218-7}}</ref> [[direct democracy]]; and a [[Horizontal integration|horizontal network]] of [[voluntary association]]s and [[workers' council]]s with production and consumption based on the guiding principle, "[[From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs|From each according to his ability, to each according to his need]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Fabbri |first=Luigi |author-link=Luigi Fabbri |title=Anarchism and Communism. Northeastern Anarchist No. 4. 1922 |date=13 October 2002 |url=http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/worldwidemovements/fabbrianarandcom.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629024338/http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/worldwidemovements/fabbrianarandcom.html |archive-date=29 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |website=The Nestor Makhno Archive |title=Constructive Section |url=http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/platform/constructive.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721225357/http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/platform/constructive.htm |archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref> Anarcho-communism differs from Marxism in that it rejects its view about the need for a [[state socialism]] phase prior to establishing communism. [[Peter Kropotkin]], the main theorist of anarcho-communism, stated that a revolutionary society should "transform itself immediately into a communist society", that it should go immediately into what Marx had regarded as the "more advanced, completed, phase of communism".<ref name="theanarchistlibrary.org">{{cite book |url=http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Wayne_Price__What_is_Anarchist_Communism_.html |title=What is Anarchist Communism? |first=Wayne |last=Price |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221140615/http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Wayne_Price__What_is_Anarchist_Communism_.html |archive-date=21 December 2010 |access-date=19 January 2011}}</ref> In this way, it tries to avoid the reappearance of class divisions and the need for a state to be in control.{{r|theanarchistlibrary.org}} Some forms of anarcho-communism, such as [[insurrectionary anarchism]], are [[Egoist anarchism|egoist]] and strongly influenced by radical [[individualism]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gray |first1=Christopher |title=Leaving the 20th century: the incomplete work of the Situationist International |date=1998 |location=London |isbn=9780946061150 |pages=88 |publisher=Rebel Press }}</ref><ref name="creativenothing">{{cite book |url=http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Renzo_Novatore__Toward_the_Creative_Nothing.html |title=Towards the creative Nothing |first=Renzo |last=Novatore |author-link=Renzo Novatore |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728093004/http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Renzo_Novatore__Toward_the_Creative_Nothing.html |archive-date=28 July 2011}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book |url=http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Bob_Black__Nightmares_of_Reason.html#toc22 |title=Bob Black. ''Nightmares of Reason'' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027102331/http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Bob_Black__Nightmares_of_Reason.html#toc22 |archive-date=27 October 2010 |access-date=1 November 2010}}</ref> believing that anarchist communism does not require a [[communitarian]] nature at all. Most anarcho-communists view anarchist communism as a way of reconciling the opposition between the individual and society.<ref group="lower-alpha">{{cite web |last=Kropotkin |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Kropotkin |date=1901 |title=Communism and Anarchy |url=http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Petr_Kropotkin__Communism_and_Anarchy.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728092851/http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Petr_Kropotkin__Communism_and_Anarchy.html |archive-date=28 July 2011 |quote=Communism is the one which guarantees the greatest amount of individual liberty—provided that the idea that begets the community be Liberty, Anarchy ... Communism guarantees economic freedom better than any other form of association, because it can guarantee wellbeing, even luxury, in return for a few hours of work instead of a day's work.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Dielo Truda (Workers' Cause) |author-link=Delo Truda |url=http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Dielo_Truda__Workers__Cause___Organisational_Platform_of_the_Libertarian_Communists.html |title=Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists |date=1926 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728092719/http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Dielo_Truda__Workers__Cause___Organisational_Platform_of_the_Libertarian_Communists.html |archive-date=28 July 2011 |quote=This other society will be libertarian communism, in which social solidarity and free individuality find their full expression, and in which these two ideas develop in perfect harmony.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=MY PERSPECTIVES – Willful Disobedience Vol. 2, No. 12 |url=http://www.reocities.com/kk_abacus/vb/wd12persp.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716084332/http://www.reocities.com/kk_abacus/vb/wd12persp.html |archive-date=16 July 2011 |quote=I see the dichotomies made between individualism and communism, individual revolt and class struggle, the struggle against human exploitation and the exploitation of nature as false dichotomies and feel that those who accept them are impoverishing their own critique and struggle.}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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