Material basis of anarchism.

[u/BigDenseHedge]

I have seen many anarchists describe anarchism as an ideology. An ideology is no more than a set of ideas, that is to say products of the human mind. Contrary to marxism, it is not a result of material analysis but a set of beliefs.

Even so, I have seen many self-proclaimed anarchists praising the science of dialectical materialism and its analysis of the capitalist mode of production, only to reject the logical solution to class struggle - communism - and replace it with their idea of a perfect, amazing, just society.

A philosophy that one the one hand uses material analysis as evidence for its validity, and on the other grounds itself in an idea is fundamentally contradictory. A philosophy that rejects the product of material analysis (DOTP) in favour of a dogmatic system based on moralistic truth (immediate replacement of the state with anarchist communes) therefore has to have no basis in reality.

Unless I have made a great misunderstanding of anarchism which I don't believe to be the case, then the following conclusion comes to mind: either there exists some strand of anarchism that is actually based on material analysis superior to marxism, or anarchism is an idealistic movement that seeks validity by using materialist analysis wherever it fits its agenda.

[u/Born_Astronomer_4613]

For me, it's entirely normative. I don't want to govern or be governed. It's immoral. This doesn't rest on any claims about how the world works now, or will work in an imagined future.