Jeff, this is in response to this video:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YhayITCYazk&local=true&dark_mode=true.
I've followed you since ~2011.
I came across you through galt's gulch and the anarchast, and have followed you since.
I owe you a real debt for interviewing marc stevens, absent that interview, and much time spent in research, I'd be in prison to this day.
You also turned me onto the hive when it was still steem.
Thank you, very much.
IF you truly want to know why the an-coms are sooo protective of the word 'anarchist' I will try to be succinct in my explanations.
Boiling 170 years of history into this comment will not be possible, but I always answer any comments so we can do it in installments if you care to do so.
This book, Looking Backwards is what clued me in to being a commie.
I was not prepared to be a commie, I was raised in the narrative, did my duty, became disillusioned after encountering a (A) circled A on the streets of Frankfurt am Main as a young private.
I was all for being my own boss and making my own rules.
The main selling point, for me, was not paying any taxes.
Having signed up to be an anarchist in 1986, I wondered why they were so anti-crapitalistic, until I read this book in 2010.
It even retains crapitalism in the form of a credit account for everybody, but it puts The Conquest of Bread into a more commercially viable wrapper.
This short story offers a good medium between what we have and what we could have.
F. I-W!
This book, particularly chapters 3 and 9, detail why crapitalism only leads to where we are now, an ultra wealthy ruling class and poverty for everybody else.
This is how crapitalism is designed.
If you can refute the math in chapter 9, I am all ears.
If not, you might want to switch allegiances to becoming a commie.
I had to in order to remain consistent in my principles.
IF you would like to know why anarchists are soooo protective over who gets to wear the title 'anarchist' it is because of all the people that have given their lives trying to usher it in.
Many, many people have died trying to free us from the coercive rule of others.
Not just any joeblow that sees a circled A on his skateboard and likes the idea of being his own boss is worthy of being called anarchist.
There are dues to be paid.
Voluntaryist, agorist, free market crapitalust, whatever, but to be an anarchist one has to earn the title from the other anarchists, eh?
We can say/claim anything we like, but professional athletes just laugh when you or I claim to be one.
This book tells the story of the first an-com community bombed back into submission by crapitalism.
As you know the Spanish Civil War was fought by franco with borrowed from hitler aerial bombs dropped on an-coms in Catalonia.
When franco killed their wives and children it took the fight right out those that wanted freedom from coercive rule.
What good is freedom if all your friends and families are dead?
Slick willy did the same to the zapatistas.
This link details a number of an-com communities that were bombed back into crapitalism.
If you want an academic treatment of why an-crap is a thing, and that thing is an oxymoron, just follow this link.
Give the link a few seconds to load, for some reason the server is slow.
Reading the entire article will go a long ways towards giving you an acceptable level of knowing what it is to be anarchist, not just wear it as a lapel pin.
I hope this short comment gives you some idea of why I told you back then the same thing I am going to tell you now, there is much you don't know about the history of anarchism.
While not on par with the skateboard kid, you are not much more advanced than that, or you would have used different words in your treatment of the Zapatistas and Cheran.
Those people have done what it takes to live free of outside coercive force.
Anarchism didn't start with JB finding out he could be his own boss and make his own rules.
This excerpt details how marx made off with the movement.
He was a tool of the khazarian mafia.
They called what happened in the USSR communism to hide the doorway out.
It says socialust right there in the name, but 'muricans don't read.
Please do the research to better do what you are doing.
You are like the alex jones of our movement, in many ways.
I hope you do a more authentic job than he does.
They don't have to burn books when nobody reads them.™
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-anarchist-communism-its-basis-and-principles
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-what-is-communist-anarchism
https://archive.org/details/revoltagainstciv00stod
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-there-is-no-communism-in-russia
https://archive.org/search.php?query=kurt%20saxon