From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>:
> Well, there are right-wing, small biz anarchists too, no?
Tahir Wood:
> Yes I posted to this and another list recently on the topic
> of 'individualist anarchism'. However, the anarcho-communists
> denied quite vehemently that this was any sort of anarchism
> at all. Maybe our professed anarchist comrades on the list
> will tell us whether they are communists or not. ...
I believe that communism is necessary to freedom (anarchy), but there are plenty of people who call themselves anarchists who disagree with me. Also, it's easy to be misunderstood when using the word _communism_, which for many people calls up visions of policemen and soldiers with little red stars on their hats herding people into Siberian labor camps -- not quite what _I_ have in mind as the good society.
The term I would use for _soi-disants_ anarchists of the Right, based on what they seem to hold important, is "propertarian", not "individualist". Individualism and communism are not necessarily opposed, but a system wherein property is the most important organizing principle of the community, as in liberal capitalism and right-wing anarchism, is inevitably highly collectivistic in that large numbers of people must submit to it, under force if necessary. Hence the enormous disindividuating and homogenizing power of capitalism as we have mostly known it, and the dense nets of rules and regulations which pervade advanced capitalist societies.
-- Gordon