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F4lconF16

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12. Disagree.
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 02:53 PM
Apr 2015
http://www.socialistrevolution.org/educate/whats-the-alternative/marxism-or-anarchism/

A really good article on anarchist thought and why Marxism rejects it.

Concentration of power corrupts, not power itself. One might even say fear of losing power corrupts, and that might be more accurate. Or you might say that unaccountable/unjustified power (or authority) corrupts. You reduce these issues to an anarchist point of view--if power always corrupts, we must smash the systems of authority that exist, and there can be no authority.

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that a Marxist society will be less sexist than a capitalist one--indeed, the fundamental principles of Marxism are based in eliminating distinctions between labor forces. To do so is to endorse feminism in it's entirety, as well as black liberation, lgbtq liberation, etc. Modern socialist movements (particularly the one I am part of, the International Socialist Organization) feel that there is no chance for progress if we do not fully support and actively fight for the removal of group distinctions in society. There is no unified working class if there is not equality.

Also, you might want to research the concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat", a useful concept when attempting to understand the Marxist analysis presented above.

edit: removed one of the articles, didn't really apply and there were things I disagreed with.

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