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What Is Communist Anarchism?

Alexander Berkman

Anarchism

Berkman's plain-spoken primer on anarchist communism — how a society without the state or capitalism might actually be organized.

Synopsis

An accessible primer making the case for a stateless, moneyless society organized by voluntary cooperation and free distribution according to need.

Core passage idea

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Government and capitalism are twin systems of coercion, and genuine freedom requires abolishing both in favor of voluntary, cooperative organization.

It states the anarchist-communist ideal plainly: liberty and equality are inseparable, neither achievable while the state and wage system endure.

To avoid a bubble

Pair with Leviathan.

Reading note

Read it as deliberately plainspoken advocacy aimed at ordinary readers, not abstract theory.

Best paired with

Leviathan

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