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Notice how the contributions these Anarchists made don’t end up in -isms. Anarchist theory is important, because you’re building this malleable theory that can adapt and change depending on the material conditions of regions and eras. When you look at the progression of Marxism to Marxism-Leninism to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism it’s basically just “Yea, what the last guy said, but now me!”
Ooh that is a very good observation and analysis, thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Honorable mention: Bookchin
Also: Baryon
Bookchin got dogpiled out of the discourse in the 90s by nascent ecofascists and by the time I discovered him a decade ago there were still enough parrots of those people around that when he got mentioned they’d come out of the woodwork to tell you he wasn’t an anarchist because he accepted participation in municipal politics, or because he found democracy acceptable for locating concensus in specific circumstances. The kind of divisive context clipping that tankies do. Honestly I feel like he was the most compelling anarchist thinker of the past 50 years, his ideas are exciting and practical and prefigurative, I think those “dogmatists” as he called them did anarchism a massive disservice that set us back by decades when they placed this cloud of taboo around the man. It saddens me when people who make lists of their canonical anarchist idea people have literally never heard of him.
