Talk:Issues in anarchism

Really repetitive line

There are two phrases in this article that are nearly identical. The first, under "Ends and Means" reads

Anarchists have often been portrayed as dangerous and violent, possibly due to a number of high-profile violent actions, including riots, assassinations, insurrections, and terrorism committed by some anarchists as well as persistently negative media portrayals.

The next occurrence, under "Violence and non-violence" goes

Anarchists have often been portrayed as dangerous and violent, due mainly to a number of high-profile violent acts including riots, assassinations, and insurrections involving anarchists.

Maybe someone should rewrite one of these sentences?

Appears to contradict article Patriarchy

I have tagged this article because it appears to contradict something stated in Patriarchy. Please see the discussion on that article's talk page for full details, and reply there if you want to comment. Thanks.—greenrd 18:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

It's probably just me

But Anarcho-Capitalism? To quote the internet: "WTF?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.162.198.171 (talk) 17:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Merge?

Sounds like a good idea. I was about to propose the same. Jacob Haller 16:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Note to anarcho-wikipedian otaku for historical posterity: the merge referred to is Major conflicts within anarchist thought to this article. Skomorokh ^incite 23:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Proposed merge from definitional concerns in anarchist theory

Definitional concerns can uncontroversially be said to be issues in anarchism; the question I am posing is whether it is better to give definitional concerns in anarchist theory it's own article, or to make it a major section of this article. The main issue, I think, is that that article is far from comprehensive; it has a lede of acceptable length and a rather good section on the Zaxlebax problem, but the remainder of the article is made up of stub sections. I favour merging all non-discrete underdeveloped articles on aspects of one topic into a single article, beating that article into shape, and then re-splitting sections into their own articles as appropriate once they become fully developed. Isolated articles have too few eyes on them and tend to be the forgotten projects of a small handful of editors, whereas articles like Anarchism for example are frequently revised and updated. Please indicate your support or opposition to the proposed merge here. Skomorokh ^incite 14:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Support, I think it is a good idea to merge these two articles creating a Definitional concerns section in the Issues in anarchism article. The Definitional concerns in anarchist theory may be a remnant of the Anarchist POV wars as it seems to be intended to clarify the terminological fallacies and misunderstandings. Lord Metroid (talk) 15:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Support. definitional concerns in anarchist theory was a way to address substantive terminological issues which editors were gaming to impose particular POVs on articles. The issues there need to be addressed somewhere, but, as these definitional issues are, in fact, current issues for the movement, this page seems to be a fine place to address them. Libertatia (talk) 19:08, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Glad to see we are in agreement; I'm going to go ahead and merge the articles, with Definitional concerns as the first subsection of this article Skomorokh ^incite 22:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Leftover material from merge

The following is unused content from the now-merged definitional concerns in anarchist theory. If you can think of an appropriate place to use this, list of basic anarchism topics perhaps, please feel free. Skomorokh ^incite 22:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Many terms can either designate specific forms of anarchism or broader trends within anarchism. In rough alphabetical order:

• "Agorism" can refer to a counter-economic strategies or to market propertarian left-libertarianism.

• In the socialist tradition, "collectivist anarchism" refers to those forms, outlined by Mikhail Bakunin, among others, which combine community ownership of most or all of the means of production with community payment for labor. In certain other traditions, "collectivist anarchism" refers to social/communal anarchism in general.

• "Communal anarchism" refers to collectivist anarchism, communist anarchism, and collectivist or communist forms of other schools (e.g. of anarcho-syndicalism).

• "Individualist anarchism" can refer to egoist anarchism or various forms of market anarchism.

• "Social anarchism" most often refers to collectivist anarchism, communist anarchism, and collectivist or communist forms of other schools (e.g. of anarcho-syndicalism). It can also refer to the circle around the periodical "Social Anarchism."

• In the socialist tradition, "socialist anarchism" refers to any form which opposes presently-existing capitalism and consciously favors a more egalitarian society, e.g. some forms of agorism, collectivist anarchism, communist anarchism, most forms of mutualist anarchism. In some other libertarian traditions, "socialist anarchism" may be limited to non-market forms of socialist anarchism.

• "Syndicalism" can refer to labor-union-centered strategies, or specifically to social anarchist versions of these.

• "Voluntary socialism" was Francis D. Tandy's term for his form of individualist anarchism.

• "Distributism" is a Roman Catholic tradition which is sometimes considered a form of left-libertarianism.

• "Industrialism" can refer to any of industrialization (not an anarchist ideology), a certain classical-liberal tradition, and industrial unionism.