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[Fantastic Anarchist]

123. Not every socialist is a Marxist.

Socialists in the anarchist tradition, as well as other currents, are opposed to Marxist theory of revolution. His critique of capitalism is good, but which was "borrowed" from the anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. It's Marx's ideas about utilizing the state and a paternal vanguard party which is unappealing to libertarian socialists of whatever type. Mikhail Bakunin, who was Marx's adversary in the First International (International Working Men's Association), correctly predicted that a Marxist Party would only replace a capitalist dictatorship with one of their own, as explicitly laid out by Marx himself who stated that the intermediate stage of Communism is a socialist state administered by a vanguard party, and that the state would wither away. Anarchists have no such delusions, and despite their own disagreements, advocate the destruction of the state and capitalism, as they are both inextricably linked. That a socialist revolution must come from the rank and file, and not on their behalf. It should be noted that Marx didn't believe the lumpen-proletariat and peasants should or could be part of the revolution, whereas, anarchists include the petty-bourgeois, proletariat, lumpen-proletariat, and peasants to be part of the same class, and that all should be included in any revolution.

To be fair to Marx, though, he did modify his thoughts on the nature of revolution when he witnessed the anarchists take over their own workplaces in the Paris and Leon Communes.

You can learn more here:

Marxism & Anarchism (This is a Marxist website)

You can learn more about anarchism here:

Anarchism: From Theory to Practice by Daniel Guerin

Anthropologist David Graeber has distinguished the two philosophies as follows:

Marxism has tended to be a theoretical or analytical discourse about revolutionary strategy. Anarchism has tended to be an ethical discourse about revolutionary practice.

Benjamin Tucker, an individualist anarchist, proclaimed:

Every anarchist is a socialist, but not every socialist is an anarchist.

It should be noted that the above information is for illustrative purposes to distinguish between Marxism and anarchism. It's not meant to be taken as a critique. My fellow workers, whether Marxist or anarchist, are my comrades.

Cheers.