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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote (edited )

Some thoughts:

The differences are often negligible, depending on the anarchism. But so far as I know there aren't any autonomous marxists who are also nihilist or post-left.

For example, I know places in the world where anarchism is associated with assholes, and other places that are majority poc where it's associated with white leftism. So sometimes people call themselves autonomist marxists so that they avoid being interpreted as anarchists are in their region.

Another reason is sometimes these people are so influenced by Marx that though they've arrived at something identical to anarchist-communism in many ways they still want Marxism to be represented in their identity.

I (an anarchist) sometimes find myself more in agreement on a particular with someone calling themselves autonomous marxist, in part because there's such a wide range of people calling themselves anarchist.

Hopefully there'll be some better answers here!

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Buenaventura_Djibouti OP wrote

Thanks yeah it helps me with my thinking on it. I almost see it as a development within Anarchism, but this complicated by the fact that many antiauthoritarian left com writers hated anarchists and vice versa.

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