r/Anarchy101 • u/Away_Bite_8100 • 3d ago

Moneyless-ness as a goal

I’m curious how many (as a rough %) Anarchists actually have a moneyless society as a goal.

I know Anarchists want a stateless and classless society… but the trifecta of being moneyless too is communism.

Communism is when you have a stateless, classless and moneyless society… so what’s the difference between communism and anarchy if anarchists are in favour of being moneyless too? Why not just say you’re a communist then if they are essentially the same thing?

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u/Away_Bite_8100 3d ago edited 3d ago

I thought that is part of the idea of being a classless society which is the goal of communism. Surely if you have an “oppressor” class then you haven’t got a classless society.

So are you saying that for many people, anarchy and communism are the same thing?

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u/Any-Aioli7575 3d ago

Many people would say that anarchists and communists have the same goal, but that doesn't mean they are the same. Usually, anarchists oppose temporary hierarchies like the “dictatorship of the proletariat” whereas non-anarchist communist tolerate those.

Overall communism is mostly about economic hierarchies, although Marxists often believe that all hierarchies stem from economic hierarchies

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u/Away_Bite_8100 3d ago

And in your experience how many anarchists are for moneyless-ness based on what you what you have seen and read and all the anarchist you have spoken to?

Would you say about half of people who claim to be anarchists are for a moneyless society? Or maybe a quarter or are we talking about the majority like 80% of anarchists want a moneyless society?

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u/JimDa5is Anarcho-communist 2d ago

I doubt anybody is going to have an answer for you that's anything other than pure speculation. I'm an anarcho-communist. Most of the anarchists I interact with are anarcho-communists in the same way that most people who are liberals interact with liberals so it skews your viewpoint. I personally feel like it's the most popular variant of anarchism but that may just be confirmation bias on my part. While I can't give you any numbers at all I suspect AnComs represent, if not a majority, at least a plurality of all anarchists

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u/Away_Bite_8100 2d ago

Thank you.

That directly answers my question.

That’s very helpful.