> aren't most anarchists within the broad scope of the "socialist"
> movement? Mike Ballard quoted Parsons as saying this. So it seems a
> bit academic to argue so vociferously over the application and the
> specific meaning of terms.
No, of course not. Not any more than anarchists are part of the "liberal movement" or the "libertarian movement." Yes, anarchists do advocate economic ideas that are socialism in many ways, but that doesn't make us socialists.
Wouldn't you think that we anarchists would simply call ourselves "socialists" if that's what we were.
There are many differences, many of which go back to the 19th century.
I'm not a socialist nor a leftist. I am an anarchist.
Chuck0