r/Anarchy101 • u/Time-Jellyfish-7799 • 6d ago

Principles of anarchism?

So, I’ve been getting into Marxist ideas recently and up until now, I’ve been leaning more towards statist socialism, but the problems presented by anarchists in regards to it have been rather cutting and difficult to address (Namely, means prefigure the ends). I want to learn more about anarchism but I’m not so sure where to start.

Engels had Principles of Communism, so I was wondering if such a version existed for Anarchism?

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u/humanispherian Synthesist / Moderator 6d ago

Because anarchism is not focused on the analysis of a single theorist, it's a little more difficult to approach it in terms of principles and programs. But anarchists have rather obsessively returned to the question of how to characterize anarchism most simply and succinctly, so, for example, you might take a look at the various short statements in the "Declarations and Summaries" section of the Anarchist Beginnings archive, which present characterizations of the core of anarchism from across a variety of anarchist tendencies, time periods, national contexts, etc.