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Anarchist Communism

A ideology and philosophy first coined by Peter Kropotkin in Conquest of Bread. It is the idea of a society based around a loosely connected of free-association communes based off of a gift economy. Anarchism being a ideology rejecting heirarchial government and authority in favor of free-associations and Communism being an economic philosophy promoting economic equality. Anarchist Communism is, but one idea regarding the economic structure of an anarchist thought, other ideologies include Anarchist Syndicalism, Anarchist Capitalism, Anarchist Collectivism, and Anarchist Individualism and others.

Anarchist Communism was a prominent ideology in the American anarchist movement in the early 1900s with prominent thinkers such as Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Earlier Anarchists who could be identified as Anarchist Communists included Dyer D. Lum, August Spies, and many of the Haymarket Martyrs who were executed as a result of the Haymarket Riots in 1886.

Anarchist Communism as an active and serious ideology in recent years especially after the USSR persecuted and imprisoned many members of the Anarchist movement during the years under Lenin and Stalin among others. A small comeback of Anarchist thought including Anarchist Communist thought has come about within the Anarcho-Punk and Crust Punk musics along with other leftist subcultures.

Anarchist Communism has recieved a negative stigma (along with all other forms of Anarchist thought) as a result of many anti-anarchist propaganda and laws (such as a law exiling non-citizen anarchists) in America, the USSR, and the commericalization of the symbology and ideas.

The symbol of Anarchist Communism and Anarchist Syndicalism is a red and black flag, with half being one color and the other half being the other color split diaganolly.
Anarchist Communism: A loosely connected system of freely associated communal societies based off of a gift-economy.
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Anarchist Cookbook 

Book that includes compilations of ways to make bombs, explosives, acids, and other destructive things with simple household products. Also teaches the reader how to perform frauds and other theiveries. Controversial material but allowed to be publicized but not comitted.
I learned that you could get high off banana peels thanks to the Anarchist Cookbook.

You can learn how to make shotgun shells explosive in the Anarchist Cookbook, they can blow whole fingers off!
Anarchist Cookbook by Beedub December 27, 2003

zen anarchist 

A person who believes that modern society has great problems rooted in it, and that people should use protest, criticism, and even gentle violence to achieve social change for the better of humanity. They also believe in the full rights of someone to do whatever they would like as long as it does not hurt others. They often look forward to a day when society as we know it ends in a massive way and there can be an apocalyptic new social setting.
I'm a zen anarchist. The way I see it, someday the whole world is going to go to shit. And I want to sit on a hill with a pair of binoculars and laugh.
zen anarchist by aneumann April 2, 2015

anarchist 

anarchists are people who want to live under their own authority. political authority is what they are against, and some will go to extreme measures. anarchists are extremely peaceful, but when time comes to take action they go right ahead. they are anti-consumeristic and often times grow their own food. anarchism these days is often found in youth, particularly people around the punk rock scene. anarchists are not people who make bombs etc. this is where the title for the "anarchist" cookbook went wrong.
The anarchist rebels against capitalism.
anarchist by dreamingforfree January 1, 2006

poser anarchist

someone who doesnt know what anarchism is and always is saiyng that he/she is an anarchist.
veronica<<<<< she who claims that she is an anarchist.even tho she has no idea what it is.she just says she is one becuz of what other ppl say.
poser anarchist by anonymous July 20, 2004

Anarchist 

One who aims to create anarchy, a society within which individuals freely co-operate together as equals. Somebody who opposes all forms of hierarchical control - be that control by the state or a capitalist - as harmful to the individual and their individuality as well as unnecessary.
Some famous anarchists include Emma Goldman and Noam Chomsky.
Anarchist by Gyro June 9, 2002

anarchist 

First of all you all are the idiots. Anarchists are not people who blow up bombs or pretend to be hardcore just for attention or to make people pissed. They are not all obnoxious 12 year olds who hate their parents. They're not people who draw A's on their hands and on signs for attention. What they are, is people who believe that people should have the freedom to actually run their own lives without someone making their decisions for them. The only reason most of them vote is beacause, if people are going to be so dumb as not to give their ideas any thought, then they might as well have what little say in their lives as they are allowed. What most people see as anarchists is just the stereotype people have developed due to some idiots who decided that anarchy should be a fad. There is no sure way to tell if anarchy will work or not because people are so closed-minded, that they wont even give it any thought.Of course we need something to stop crime but the government, as it has proven many times, sure isn't it.
anarchist's think you should actuyally living your life instead of having some figurehead run it for you.
anarchist by Luke Dixon November 7, 2008