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Hi @DGilesPhd. I've read your article explaining why anarchism is right wing. You don't understand anarchism at all and are clearly not familiar with basic anarchist theory. I shall now explain why you are wrong.
https://insertphilosophyhere.com/clarifying-the-political-spectrum/
https://insertphilosophyhere.com/clarifying-the-political-spectrum/
1. Your points could potentially apply to so called right wing libertarians who advocate free market capitalism without a state. It does not, however, apply to anarchism in the sense of the massive social movement which advocates the abolition of capitalism and the state.
2. Anarchists do not advocate a society in which people are "immune from criticism from and responsibilities and accountability to others". They in fact advocate a society based on co-operation and solidarity between equals. Malatesta writes in anarchy,
Anarchists rejected the idea that freedom = the individual not having responsibilities towards others. They in fact argued that individuals can only be free via their social relationships and that this requires compromise between our different desires. Malatesta writes,
3. Anarchists do not think that "we have no need for social mechanisms to limit abuses" of "power" such that "a few strongmen" could easily rise to the top and oppress everyone else. In fact the exact opposite is true. Once again you would know this if you'd done the reading.
Anarchists reject centralised organisations in which a minority have the power to impose decisions on others via violence in favour of a decentralised federation of autonomous workplace and community assemblies. Within these assemblies decisions are made collectively by the group
In other words, anarchists propose a method of collective decision making and deliberation within general assemblies in order to avoid a situation in which one person is able to order everyone else about. And this point is made explictly by Bakunin.
Bakunin writes that to “prevent men from ever oppressing other men” it is necessary to “arrange matters such that they never have the opportunity”. This must be achieved by ensuring that social structures "gives no one the power to set himself above others or to dominate them".
It is for this reason that anarchists co-ordinate action over a large area through a system of federalism in which groups elect delegates who are instantly recallable and mandated on how to vote at congresses, which are attended by all the delegates in a given area.
Importantly anarchists consciously developed limits to the power of delegates in order to avoid a situation where they could become a new class of rulers who imposed decisions on the previously autonomous groups. Malatesta explains in at the cafe that,
In conclusion, you do not understand anarchism and have zero familiarity with the ideas of Bakunin, Malatesta, Kropotkin, Goldman, Rocker, Pouget, He-Yin Zhen, Albert and Lucy Parsons, M. P. T. Acharya and so on and on. I suggest researching a topic before talking about it.
