@kennyskitchen, smh, Marx was the tool the banks used to corrupt the term communism.
I know he predates the references I cited, but those references reflect much more accurately the modern anarchist's perspective.
If you want contemporary refutations of Marx you gotta read Bakunin.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michail-bakunin-marxism-freedom-and-the-state
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I've read most of Bakunin's work, I prefer the old anarchists (Bookchin, Proudhon, Goldman, etc) to all these capitalists-in-anarchists-clothing that are so popular these days. The only real difference between marx & the libertarian socialists was his approach to reaching the same end goal.
He believed in rule by force, which is the disease to the symptoms of who and how.
Most of our problems go away when force is removed from the equation.
Crapitalism and anarchism are mutually exclusive.
You can't gouge, and love, your neighbors, simultaneously.
That Berkman book is high on my favorites.
Having never met the man, I won't claim to know what he believed. However, the works of his that I've read, and texts of his contemporaries clearly promoted a classless & stateless society.
I completely agree. Competition is the basis for force. At the deepest root (at least as deep as I've been able to go), all of the symptoms we see are from the same disease: the false belief that any human is separate from all other life on Earth, and the Earth itself.
Perhaps you are right, perhaps we only got the history that complied with the goals of those that brought it forward.
Voline's The Unknown Revolution shows how those that became the 'communists' of Russia used the rhetoric of the anarchists to deceive the people into supporting them.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voline-the-unknown-revolution-1917-1921-book-one-birth-growth-and-triumph-of-the-revolution