#reading ... via @theslowburningfuse@kolektiva.social https://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/can-you-be-an-anarchist-without-being-a-communist '...For thinkers such as Bakunin, Kropotkin and Goldman, the problem was never simply that the wrong people occupied positions of authority. The problem was authority itself. States divide society into rulers and ruled. They concentrate decision-making power in the hands of a minority and back those decisions with organised force. Even when they claim to act in the name of the people, they preserve a structure in which some command and others obey. This understanding explains why anarchists have traditionally been suspicious of revolutionary movements that seek to capture state power...' #Anarchism #Socialism #Communism