Submitted by Stolenfromreddit in Anarchism
Everyone is imperfect and unfit to rule. Place one person or another above everyone else and their prejudices define the movement. Put a hundred anarchists together and the personal failings matter little. When Proudhon started writing, women couldn't vote or own land. This is no-longer the case thanks in a very literal sense to the efforts of anarchists like Goldman and de Cleyre. It doesn't matter if Proudhon was a misogynist. I'm not Proudhon. You're not Proudhon. We're not Proudhonists, we're anarchists.
chaos wrote (edited )
While this is true for a lot of anarchists, others fall into the hero worship trap as much as liberals. See people fawning over Chomsky or Bookchin on reddit and immediately attacking anyone that disagrees with their hero in the slightest.