The End of Anarchy – An Introduction
from Center for a Stateless Society by Shane Ross
To read Proudhon, to many non-mutualist thinkers beyond anarchist academia, is laughable. Anarchist communists will insist that Bakunin, Kropotkin and Bookchin expand on Proudhon, rendering the original mutualist promise as empty (ironic considering the massive amount Bakunin took directly from Proudhon.) Anarchist capitalists insist that his theories were flawed, socialist, and/or didn’t rely on the non-aggression principle or Austrian economics (or generally some otherwise lackluster defense of the freedom of capitalists). Marxians, much to the dismay of left anarchists, will insist that Marx “debunked Bakunin and Proudhon” during his time (as if the schools haven’t had a dialogue for as long as Marxism has lived).