If Marxism is taken as a critique of capitalism, then it is wrong to associate it with any particular ploitical position. And if "socialism" is a political position, then there is no necessary relation to Marxism. And in fact this turns out to be the empirical fact. I would guess that most socialists are _not_ Marxists. And if anarchism is a political position, then there is no necessary contradiction between it and Marxism. If Fredy Perlman wasn't a Marxist, then I don't know who is. And he was an anarchist, member of Black and Red, the name of which alone undercuts the contrast being worried in this thread.
Carrol
On 10/17/2011 10:55 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:48 AM, SA<s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I feel like I've recently encountered, by random chance, a series of people
>> who've said they were once anarchists but gradually "grew out of" anarchism
>> and moved in a more Marxist direction.
>
> In my experience that does seem more random than indicative. In my experience.
>
>> My second question is: did you go through this trajectory?
>
> I go through it at least once a week. And then back again.
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