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Most anarchist communists and collectivists believe in the use of violence to abolish hierarchical relations, especially government and capitalism. Some of them further support violence to prevent these things from returning.

What is mutualism's relationship to violence? Is violence ever justified, or do you support more peaceful measures of attaining anarchy?

In arguments about whether capitalism is a truly voluntary system ("work or starve"), I tend to see supporters bring up how you could become self-employed or form a cooperative under a capitalist system. I understand that there can be all sorts of obstacles to doing so, but I find myself having trouble articulating why this doesn't make capitalism voluntary in any meaningful sense.

How do I respond to that argument?

(this is largely taken from a couple of responses I posted in r/debateanarchism regarding this subject, but I figured it might be useful to post here)

I fail to see how you could possibly maintain racial or identity separatism without regressing to authoritarianism. It sounds like a reactionary form of what Kropotkin called God the Community, the most terrible God ever conceived. Their take on this God would amount to nothing more than decentralized and deformed ethnostates.

Their response to, for example, queer people in a hypothetical commune of straight people is "well just start your own community!" Which echoes the absurdity of capitalists telling us "just start your own business!" an

One of the few things leftists can agree on is that Rosa Luxemburg is pretty cool. For some, she's so cool that they identify as Luxemburgists.

However, I was looking through the Preliminary Survey thread, and I saw a comment from u/kc_socialist that expresses a sentiment I've also seen from a few other socialists:

Lol Luxemburgism isn't even a thing.

So where does Rosa Luxemburg fit in for you? Does she have a distinct ideology, does she

Hello, comrades. I've become interested in Rosa Luxemburg recently, and in particular her internationalism. I know about her disagreements with Lenin on national self-determination, but could anybody familiar with her work provide a summary of what she believed as an internationalist?

Howdy. I'm an anarchist who's gotten interested in left communism recently. I wanted to know what folks here think of the Spanish Revolution and if there are any left communist critiques of the revolution. Many of us consider it a success insofar as it formed a functioning socialist society, though as far as anarchism goes, I think it fell short in trying to dismantle social hierarchy and the state.

There are multiple variants of socialism, each with different ways of organizing society. Of course, the dominant one throughout history has been Marxism-Leninism and its various offshoots (i.e. the former USSR, Cuba, China, etc) As an anarchist, I consider pretty much all of them to be failures, and I think lots of people -- including other socialists -- agree.

I've spoken to one or two people that left these countries or had relatives that lived there in the past, who now have a hostile view of socialism and communism. I suffer from some social anxiety, so I have trouble approaching them in a way that takes into account what they experienced while trying to correct misconceptions, why tho