15 Facts About Social anarchism

Social anarchism, sometimes referred to as red anarchism, is the branch of anarchism that sees individual freedom as interrelated with mutual aid.

Social anarchism anarchist thought advocates social property to offer individual empowerment through easier access to tools and a sharing of the commons while retaining respect for personal property.

Social anarchism is considered an umbrella term that mainly refers to the post-capitalist economic models of anarcho-communism, collectivist anarchism and sometimes mutualism.

Social anarchism has been described as the collectivist or socialist wing of anarchism as well as representing socialist-aligned forms of anarchism, being contrasted with the liberal-socialist wing represented by individualist anarchism.

Several anarchists argued that the struggle within anarchism is not between socialists and capitalists, but rather between anarchists and non-anarchists.

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Notwithstanding the name, collectivist Social anarchism is seen as a blend of individualism and collectivism.

Social anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid".

Social anarchism emphasizes mutual aid, social ownership and workers' self-management.

Social anarchism has been the dominant form of classical anarchism and includes the major collectivist, communist and syndicalist schools of anarchist thought.

Social anarchism ownership advocated by social anarchists can come through collective ownership as with Bakuninists and collectivist anarchists; common ownership as with communist anarchists; and cooperative ownership as with mutualist and syndicalist anarchists.

Collectivist Social anarchism is a revolutionary form of Social anarchism commonly associated with Mikhail Bakunin and James Guillaume.

Collectivist Social anarchism arose contemporaneously with Marxism, but it opposed the Marxist dictatorship of the proletariat despite the stated Marxist goal of a collectivist stateless society.

Some forms of anarcho-communism such as insurrectionary anarchism are strongly influenced by egoism and radical individualism, believing anarcho-communism is the best social system for the realization of individual freedom.

Social anarchism ecology is closely related to the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin and influenced by anarchist Peter Kropotkin.

Social anarchism ecologists assert that the present ecological crisis has its roots in human social problems and that the domination of human-over-nature stems from the domination of human-over-human.