BAKUNIN WAS HERE, MARX IS A LOSER

Anarcho-faggot here. Where are all my socialist comrades?

Stalinists can fuck off, though. Liberals, too, as contrary to popular misperceptions in this board, they are not socialists.

Also, cocks.

Most anarchists nowadays would say that they are not opposed to government, or maybe even laws. They are just opposed to said government and laws coming out of a centralized state. Many of us propose a kind of federalist system, a "commune of communes" (or municipality of municipalities, as Bookchin called them), if you will.

The main difference between Marxists (of the Leninist kind, not the council commies or autonomists) and anarchists lies in how they view the state. Marxists see the state solely as an instrument of class power, which means that they believe it to be a useful tool in crushing the bourgeois and other counter-revolutionary forces. However, anarchists extend their view of the state further, and consider it not only an instrument of class oppression, but a self-perpetuating institution with a monopoly on violent force.

That is why we argue that, no matter how democratic the state is, it cannot possibly "wither away", let alone lead us towards a communist society. By its very nature, a state is oppressive, and puts those at the helm above everyone else. Stacking it with workers or revolutionaries will only corrupt them, and turn them into the same old tyrants.