With some input from CHRISTIAN BUTTERBACH, cb@butterbach.net

A SURVEY OF HYPHENATED ANARCHIST TYPES AND THEIR OPPOSITES.

by John Zube, jzube@acenet.com.au

ANYONE IS INVITED TO REPRODUCE AND IMPROVE THIS DRAFT. Just send me a copy including your improvements!

A first draft was undertaken on 13 March 96, as a step towards a complete survey of this kind. Extensive help is needed to complete this listing. How many different kinds of anarchism are there or have ever been advocated and are still advocated by some? I do not know. Do you? Are there as many as there have been different "Gods", or religious faiths, churches and sects?

Further entries to this listing are welcomed, as well as corrections. No one knows or appreciates all of them alike. My bias will show, inevitably. Enter your own favourites and also the types you dislike or hate most.

Doubling up of descriptions in different terms and the overlapping of descriptions has not been avoided so far. Nor have these entries been sufficiently grouped and sorted out, if at all. Neither has the most suitable term always been placed first, for its limited alphabetization. Consider this to be no more than a still all too limited brainstorming effort, one that invites further brainstorming input.

The final list, if it ever becomes finalized, will look very different from this listing. It will be much clearer and explicit, I hope. It will also have sufficient groupings or cross references.

Many of these terms are loaded with value judgements. If you can, please do express them more objectively.Finally, ask yourself: Can all of these types, their principles, institutions and communities, peacefully coexist with each other?

Can all of them not only do this but can they also coexist, peacefully, with all kinds of competing governmental, economic and social systems that are not anarchistic in their ideals, among a majority or minorities of remaining statists or governmentalists?

If so, then what kinds of minimum common premises, principles, methods, processes, institutions and organizations or frameworks would be required for this?

Could these one day come to turn minorities and even majorities of statists into our allies or at least neutralize them?

I make no secret out of my preference for the panarchistic framework for all but aggressive criminals with victims. I much prefer it even over any radically decentralized but still territorially exclusive and uniform communities, intentional communities or utopian colonies. On a proprietary and cooperative

basis these could be realized under panarchism, too, but our options would not be confined to them. Nor would we have to respect their land-grabbing and usurping territorial claims, their exclusive and imposed constitutions, laws, jurisdiction, police and other armed forces and their artificial borders.

Cities, religious liberty, private diverse actions and associations, the Internet and some past and partly remaining historical traditions demonstrated to me, convincingly, that peaceful coexistence and individual choices in the "public" sphere are rightful, possible and desirable, even peace-, progress-, justice-, freedom- and prosperity-promoting. I am preparing an encyclopaedia on that option, called ON PANARCHY, as part of my PEACE PLANS series. The first 19 volumes and some supplementary volumes on extraterritorial autonomy are already

out, all only on microfiche. Until pulled together by an alphabetical index, after a few more such volumes, it is only a materials collection.

Several hundred copies, primitively offset printed and home-bound, of my peace programme, based on panarchistic ideas and alphabetized, are still available in this offset and bound form (apart from a 3-fiche and $ 3 issue of it, available for $3 in Australian postage stamps or 3 IRCs ) for $ 5 plus postage, or $ 10 (in cash or Australian postage stamps), including postage and handling.

Title: An ABC Against Nuclear War, 1975, 270pp of fine print. Subtitled: "A handbook of ideas on the prevention of nuclear war, proposing: Dissolution of the warfare State through extension of individual liberties and responsibilities, freedom vs. the ultimate of statism - nuclear holocaust. ..."

This book, in PEACE PLANS Nos. 16-18, contains ca. 500 alphabetized suggestions. Among several other relevant essays, in its appendix, it contains the classicdescription of panarchism by P.E. de Puydt: Panarchy, Brussels, 1860, Revue Trimestrielle, in a translation by Adrian Falk.- But I must warn you, that it is primitively bound and printed often not easily legible. I have still to scan it in and produce a better copy of it.

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??? - anarchism vs. existentialist anarchism.

??? - anarchism vs. situationist anarchism. (I am still confused or ignorant about their aims and meanings and saw never anything moral, rational and attractive in the little that I read about them. Thus I would, so far, rather class them with the primitive and circus anarchists. J.Z.)

Abolitionist, radical, destroy-the-State anarchism vs. gradualist, reformist, evolutionary, philosophical and educational forms of anarchism.

Absolute property rights anarchism of the Robert LeFevre type, including absolute property in land and natural resources, vs. various types of anti-property to limited property notions of anarchism.

Alternative or parallel institutions or competitive anarchism or self-liberation anarchism vs. mass-movement, destructive, expropriating, revolutionary or abolitionist anarchism or one-model only anarchism for all, whether they believe in it or not.

Altruistic anarchism vs. egoistic anarchism.

American anarchism vs. European anarchism.

Anarchism now! - anarchism vs. far-future realization of the anarchist dream. Compare alternative institutions and gradualist, reformist, educational anarchism.

Anarcho-capitalism vs. communist anarchism or libertarian socialism.

Anarcho-liberal vs. anarcho-conservative. (Anarcho-liberal is an oxymoron. Some liberals believe in the State and anarchists do not, says ANY TIME NOW, No. 7, in Summer, Fall 99. However, many classical liberals take many anarchistic positions, especially in economics and in reducing the State to Wilhelm von Humboldt's "nightwatch man" status. And at least some conservatives adopt more and more individualist anarchist positions, or at least discuss them thoroughly. - Alas, the terms "liberal" and "conservative", as usually understood or misunderstood, only add to the confusion. - J.Z.)

Anarcho terrorists or bomb throwers and assassins vs. non-violent and pacifist or civil defence anarchists.

Angry anarchism, destructive, violent, revolutionary and self-styled "radical"- anarchism vs. patient, loving, persistent, fraternal, humane and realistic anarchism.

Animal rights anarchism vs. human rights anarchism. (For me H.R. come first and animals have only the right of irrational beings, i.e., not to be killed unnecessarily, not to be cruelly treated and, in our own interest, not to be wiped out as a species. - J.Z.)

Antisemitic anarchism (Duehring?) vs. non-racist anarchism.

Anti-technology anarchism vs. technology anarchism.

Atheist, agnostic, deist, humanist, rationalist anarchism that, apart from its propaganda and self-concerned actions or non-actions, remains tolerant towards tolerant religious choices and actions of others vs. anarchism that sees red regarding any religious sentiment, idea and ritual and would prefer to hang all priests and close all churches.

Autarchism or autarchic anarchism of the Robert LeFevre Type vs. retreatist anarchism and national territorial and "economic" autarchy attempts of totalitarian regimes.

Authoritarian anarchism vs. voluntary anarchism.

Atheist anarchisms vs. christian or other religious anarchism.

Back-to-basics anarchism vs. hyphenated forms of anarchism. (The attempts to find common ground, principles or characteristics, like voluntarism or non-domination over dissenters. Some anarchists are as afraid of diversity or "fragmentation" or disunity as are territorial politicians.)

Back to nature anarchism vs. forward with nature anarchism.

Bottoms-up or grass roots anarchism, based on individual sovereignty vs. top down or centrally planned and directed anarchism, based on collective sovereignty.

Brotherhood anarchism vs. animosity-anarchism (hateful, violent, imposed, criminal) and individualist anarchism.

Buddhist anarchism vs. other religious kinds of anarchism.

Bureaucratic anarchism vs. individualist anarchism.

Capitalistic anarchism, anarcho-capitalism or market-anarchism or laissez-faire anarchism vs. socialistic, collectivistic, communistic anarchism or libertarian socialism. (Just a shorter version of the propertarian etc. anarchism. - See: Laissez-Faire anarchism and Free-Market anarchism.)

Christian anarchism vs. atheist anarchism and non-violent anarchism.

Circus anarchism, play-acting, exhibitionist, artistic, symbolic or lunatic anarchism vs. rational, moral, serious, scientific, educational, philosophical anarchism.

Classical anarchism vs. modern anarchism.

Collectivist anarchism vs. individualist anarchism.

Communist anarchism vs. individualist anarchism.

Competitive anarchism vs. exclusive, monopolistic, privileged and uniform anarchism imposed upon all, whether they like it or not.

Competitive anarchism vs. cooperative anarchism. (Under voluntarism the two are not opposites. Moreover, competition is a form of cooperation and cooperation is a form of competition. - J.Z.)

Compulsory anarchism vs. voluntary anarchism.

Concrete-bound and almost mindless activist anarchism vs. theoretical, philosophical, educational and talk-talk anarchism.

Conservationist anarchism vs. economic development anarchism.

Consistent anarchism vs. inconsistent anarchism.

Cooperative anarchism vs. competitive anarchism. (Under voluntarism the two are not opposites. Moreover, competition is a form of cooperation and cooperation is a form of competition. - J.Z.)

Cooperative production and consumer coop anarchism vs. syndicalist and collectivist and unionist anarchism. (IWW etc.)

Cooperative production and cooperative and voluntary intentional community anarchism, partnerships, self-management schemes, autonomous group-work, all no longer under government legislation and jurisdiction, vs. share company and corporation anarchism, including multinational corporations, no longer under

government legislation and jurisdiction. (The best forms of each come close to their seeming opposites. J.Z.)

Cooperative, competing, voluntarist, propertarian and tolerant anarchism vs. compulsory, expropriative, exclusive, violent, unionist or syndicalist anarchism.

Criminal, bank-robbing, expropriating, antagonistic and victimizing anarchism, with a wrong notion of defence, resistance and liberation, that sees the main enemy in property rather than domination and compulsory membership, vs. individualist, propertarian, capitalistic, free-market, human rights, non-violent, non-criminal anarchism.

Cultural anarchism, stressing especially artistic, e.g. literary, poetic and musical or fashion freedom, theatrical options and playful events vs. political, economic and social reform or revolution anarchism.

Daily private and individual choices and actions anarchism, expanded to all "public services" (see under "panarchism") vs. prescriptive anarchism of a few for all, whether they are anarchists or not. (As a German proverb says: "If you don't want to be my brother then I'll bash your head in!")

Decentralized anarchism vs. centralized or federated anarchism.

Defensively and liberatingly forceful anarchism, using non-violent options first but only as far as they go vs. dogmatically and exclusively non-violent or totally pacifistic anarchism or one committed only to civic defence and resistance anarchism. (Gandhi, LeFevre, Martin.)

Diverse anarchism vs. uniform anarchism.

Dog eat dog anarchism vs. altruistic, collectivist, socialist, communist etc. anarchism.

Dogmatic anarchism vs. scientific, speculative, pragmatic and experimental anarchism.

Drop-out anarchism or lifestyle anarchism (expressed in trivia like hairstyles, music, dance, fashion), an incomplete or fractional anarchism, vs. social, economic and political reform anarchism for the whole society, but not necessary with the same reforms for all societies that constitute the all-over free society. It's also versus all compulsory utopias or supposedly ideal, planned and scientific societies.

Ecology anarchism vs. economic development anarchism.

Economic and political anarchism vs. holistic anarchism.

Economic anarchism vs. lifestyle choice anarchism.

Educational and enlightening anarchism vs. nihilistic, protest, actionist (action for the sake of action, no matter how futile and senseless, wrongful, destructive, provocative and self-defeating, like marching, demonstrating, shouting, banner-waving and sloganeering) anarchism. (Some do consider even criminals with victims as anarchists.)

Egalitarian anarchism vs. individualist and voluntary anarchism.

Egoistic, self-serving and self-responsible or individualistic anarchism vs. altruistic, fraternal, egalitarian, all for one, one for all or communistic, collectivistic, socialistic anarchism or libertarian socialism.

Emotional anarchism vs. educational, philosophic, scientific, rational, human rights, natural law or ethical anarchism.

Ethical anarchism vs. "right is might" and "might is right" anarchism. (Some Stirnerians and Egoists, Ragnar Redbeard.)

Evolutionary and developmental anarchism vs. revolutionary, coercive, militant, "radical" anarchism.

Existentialist anarchism vs. ??? anarchism. What is its opposite? Non-existing anarchism?

Experimental anarchism vs. theoretical, dogmatic and speculative anarchism.

Exterritorialist anarchism vs. territorialist anarchism.

Exterritorially decentralized or networked anarchism (panarchism) vs. decentralized anarchism that is exclusively territorially organized.

Federalistic anarchism (e.g., Syndicalism) vs. local, individualistic anarchism, utopian colony or intentional community or decentralist or independent types of anarchism.

Forward with nature vs. back to nature anarchism.

Fraternal anarchism vs. individualist anarchism.

Free exchange or earnings from labour and capital anarchism vs. coercively and artificially distributionist anarchism, e.g. according to egalitarian or Georgist principles. (Just another version of propertarian anarchism.)

Free-Market anarchism vs. self-sufficiency or autarchist anarchism & retreatist or decentralist or socialist anarchism.

Futuristic anarchism vs. retreatist anarchism.

Futuristic anarchism vs. traditional or reactionary anarchism. (Golden Age notions!)

Game-playing anarchism vs. serious, scientific, liberating anarchism opening up new opportunities for all who want them in the social, economic and political sphere, based upon radical individual rights concepts.

General and free and private individual choice anarchism vs. sexual revolution or liberation anarchism, which holds that everything else is secondary. (Armand)

government legislation and jurisdiction. (The best forms of each come close to their seeming opposites. J.Z.)

Golden Age anarchism vs. progressive and free market anarchism.

Gradualist anarchism, as far as actions, not principles and final aims, are concerned vs. "anarchism now and for all" attempts.

Gradualist, daily life, step by step anarchism vs. package deal or wholesale utopia anarchism.

Gradualist, reformist, evolutionary, philosophical and educational forms of anarchism vs. abolitionist, radical, destroy-the-State and anarchy-now!- anarchism.

Green anarchism vs. economic development anarchism.

Holistic anarchism vs. economic and political anarchism.

Household or parochial anarchism vs. internationalist anarchism.

Human rights anarchism vs. utilitarian and amoralist, sceptical or nihilist and "might is right" anarchism .

Hyphenated anarchism vs. unhyphenated anarchism.

Individual rights anarchism vs. "rights" of the needy and poor anarchism, presuming "rightful" claims against the property and earnings of others, even those who dissent against this "ideal".

Individual secessionist and voluntaryist constructive and self-management anarchism vs. abolitionist and destructive anarchism.

Individualist anarchism vs. left-wing and right-wing anarchism, egalitarian anarchism, communist, socialist, collectivist anarchism, syndicalism, bureaucratic or federalistic and representative and structured anarchism and libertarian socialism.

Informed and enlightened anarchism vs. uninformed, ignorant and prejudiced anarchism.

Innovative and futuristic anarchism vs. historical and traditional anarchism.

Intentional community anarchism vs. ??? What exactly is its opposite?

Internationalist anarchism, that applies its principles to defence, liberation efforts and revolutions against dictatorships, vs. more or less parochial or municipal anarchism to nation-wide anarchism or even mere household and friendship-circle anarchism. (I believe that most forms of anarchism have at least some world-wide aspirations. Their means may differ but not their ends. E.g., they may only want to deliver a demonstration or experimental or pilot project for others to observe and follow.)

Intermediate technology anarchism vs. high technology anarchism. (The latter includes microfilm options, at least as long as it hasn't lost its remaining leading edges.)

Laissez faire economics anarchism vs. various forms of communist and socialist or collectivist anarchism.

Land reform anarchism of e.g. the Henry George, Silvio Gesell and K.H.Z. Solneman type vs. proprietary community land holding, as proposed by Spencer Heath et al and open coops for land and natural resources, as proposed by Theodor Hertzka and limited to voluntary practice by Ulrich von Beckerath.

Left-wing anarchism vs. up-wing and right-wing anarchism.

Lifestyle anarchism, drop-out anarchism, punk-anarchism vs. economic anarchism (Laissez-faire anarchism)and straight-life-anarchism, reformist and revolutioanry anarchism.

Literary, verbal and ideas anarchism vs. visual, illustrative, symbolic, logo or artistic anarchism.

Local community anarchism vs. internationalist and nation-wide anarchism.

Lunatic anarchism, play-acting or circus anarchism vs. rational, moral, serious, scientific, educational anarchism.

Macroeconomic anarchism vs. microeconomic anarchism.

Mass-movement-anarchism vs. individualist and small group or utopian colony or intentional community, i.e., decentralist and minority group anarchism.

Microeconomic anarchism vs. macroeconomic anarchism.

Militia anarchism, based upon individual rights, self-management and self-determination even for soldiers, for the protection of individual rights, in ideal volunteer militias vs. conventional militia and liberation forces or "freedom fighters" with all too limited and usually nationalistic or racist "liberation" programmes. (See PP 61-63.)

Missionary anarchism vs. tolerant, pragmatic, experimental, self-liberating anarchism.

Moderate and non-violent anarchism vs. radical, revolutionary and terrorist anarchism or bomb-throwing anarchism. (What is meant by "moderate" anarchism is mainly the lifestyle, educational and philosophical anarchism, derogatorily called the talk-talk-anarchism.)

Modern anarchism vs. classical anarchism.

Monetary freedom or merely gold-bug anarchism vs. money abolitionist anarchism, wanting to return to a barter- or gift-or no-pricing economy, based on communistic notions.

Mutual aid anarchism vs. rugged individualist, egoist, individualist, free market, capitalist or laissez faire anarchism.

Mutualist anarchism vs. communist or socialist anarchism.

Natural law (early E. Burke), moral law, human rights, ethical anarchism vs. artificially designed, intentional community or social engineering, constructed, constitutional, utopian or synthetic and utilitarian anarchism.

Natural man anarchism, for man as he is vs. anarchism for a future, changed and supposedly better man. Compare natural anarchism vs. realistic anarchism.

Natural, tribal, primitive, back to nature, anarchism, presuming the historical existence of a "Golden Age" vs. futuristic, developmental, evolutionary, scientific, rational, ethical, philosophical, educational and pluralistic anarchism.

Nihilistic and sceptical anarchism (do they have to be separated?) vs. anarchisms guided by basic and agreed upon values for their members.

Non-racist anarchism vs. antisemitic anarchism (Duehring?).

Nonviolent anarchism vs. militant, violent, armed, and militarily organized and trained anarchism.

One form of anarchism for all people - anarchism vs. tolerant, experimental, voluntaristic, diversified, competitive and cooperative anarchism. (When voluntaristic communities of statists are included in the competition then we arrive at panarchism.)

Open-minded anarchism vs. closed minded and dogmatic anarchism.

Panarchist anarchism of competing governments and free societies on the basis of full minority autonomy, exterritorially under personal laws, or panarchism, vs. limited competition anarchism, in which competition is considered acceptable only between anarchistic societies and communities.

Panarchistic anarchism vs. non-panarchistic anarchism.

Patient, loving, persistent, fraternal, humane and realistic anarchism vs. angry, destructive, violent, revolutionary and self-styled "radical"- anarchism.

Permanent protest anarchism vs. anarchism with a positive liberation program.

Philosophical anarchism vs. anarchism by deed.

Philosophical anarchism vs. instinctual, emotional, pragmatic, realistic, day-to-day anarchism.

Planet-wide anarchism of one particular form vs. competitive or multi-cultural forms of anarchism that compete not only with other forms of anarchism on one planet but also with various forms of voluntary statism, as panarchism does. (The planet-wide form of a single kind of anarchism is all too wide spread in SF, while the peaceful coexistence of numerous forms of governmental and non-governmental societies on the same planet, on the basis of voluntarism and exterritorial autonomy {panarchism} remains largely unexplored in this literature as well as in the expressly anarchistic literature. - J.Z.)

Planned, constructed, rational, scientific, utopian, conscious, technological anarchism, however voluntaristic, competitive, cooperative and free enterprise, directed or leadership and authoritarian anarchism vs. natural development or evolutionary, customary, emotional, back-to nature and "natural man" anarchism.

(Obviously, too many different concepts can be squeezed into one entry, which are not always clearly opposite to the other side, expressed behind the vs. I leave sorting out to later and largely to others, with clearer and better ideas. The whole spectrum is involved - and mixed colours as well, in seemingly endless variety.)

Play-acting or circus or lunatic anarchism vs. rational, moral, serious, scientific, educational anarchism.

Pluralistic anarchism vs. uniform and authoritarian or egalitarian anarchism.

Popular anarchism ("direct - democratic", "representative", "republican" anarchism of the people, by the people and for the people anarchism, that liberates and empowers the people or the masses, instead of looking down upon them vs. elite-anarchism based on the assumption that "might equals right" "anarchism" of the few, an elite of "supermen" (Stirner, Nietzsche, Redbeard ).

Practical anarchism vs. idealistic, theoretical, educational & utopian anarchism.

Pragmatic vs. theoretical anarchism.

Principled anarchism vs. casuistic and unprincipled anarchism.

Pro-inheritance anarchism vs. anti-inheritance anarchism.

Pro private, competitive and cooperative property in land anarchism (Theodor Hertzka's "open coops", U. von Beckerath's tolerant variations of them, Spencer Heath MacCallum's "proprietary communities", Robert LeFevre's "absolute property" concept & autarchy ) vs. anti-property land reform anarchism of various types. (Henry George, Tolstoi, Silvio Gesell, Solneman.)

Programmed anarchism, based on well thought out and proven programmes, gradualist to radical, reformist to revolutionary, non-violent to militant, for volunteer communities only vs. dream-time anarchism, with its flawed utopias to be forced upon all.

Progressive anarchism vs. primitive anarchism and "Golden Age" anarchism.

Progressive anarchism vs. self-sufficiency or autarchist anarchism.

Progressive anarchism vs. traditional or reactionary anarchism.

Propaganda-by-deed-anarchism vs. propaganda by ideas and arguments or educational anarchism.

Propaganda-by-ideas and arguments or educational anarchism vs. propaganda-by-deed anarchism.

Propertarian, pro-property, pro free enterprise and cooperative property and earnings, pro-interest & profits & dividends & rent & competition & free trade & freedom of exchange or capitalist anarchism, market anarchism, laissez-faire, laissez passer (Let people produce, let people exchange) or anarcho-capitalism vs. various forms of communist, socialist, collectivist, left anarchism, opposed to property, especially in means of production and land, and opposed to interest, profit, dividends, rent, markets, free pricing, market wages and earnings, money, capital markets, corporations, multinationals, development, growth.

Proprietary Community anarchism vs. various forms of decentralized, municipal, territorial, communist, socialist or libertarian socialist and exterritorial or panarchistic anarchism.

Protest anarchism vs. utopian, reformist, revolutionary, constructive anarchism.

Pseudo anarchism vs. rational anarchism.

Radical, revolutionary and terrorist anarchism or bomb-throwing anarchism vs. moderate or non-violent anarchism.

Rational anarchism vs. emotional anarchism.

Realistic anarchism vs. idealistic anarchism.

Reformist anarchism vs. revolutionary or "radical" anarchism. (I hold that many reforms are more radical than many of the proposed revolutions. J.Z.)

Religious and tolerant anarchism, favoring religious liberty and tolerance vs. anarchism intolerant of religions and sectarian beliefs, atheistic, rationalistic and humanist anarchism.

Representative anarchism vs. individualist anarchism.

Retreatist anarchism vs. progressive or free market, capitalist or futurist anarchism.

Revisionist anarchism vs. traditional anarchism or classical anarchism.

Right wing anarchism vs. up-wing anarchism.

Right-wing anarchism vs. individualist anarchism.

Right-wing anarchism vs. left-wing anarchism.

Rugged individualist anarchism vs. altruistic, communistic, collectivistic, socialistic, religious and decentralist anarchism.

Sceptical and nihilistic vs. dogmatic and authoritarian or faithful, religious anarchism.

Scientific anarchism vs. dogmatic or utopian or "idealistic" anarchism.

Scientific, forward-looking, progressive, technological anarchism vs. backward-looking, mythical, golden-age, back to nature, primitive, traditional, historical, and utopian novel anarchism.

Secessionist anarchism and deserters etc., striving for exterritorial autonomy for voluntary protective associations vs. unity, territorialist, loyalist and traditionalist anarchism, that would not allow individuals to secede from or desert its communities to join others or even archist communities.

Self-management and cooperative anarchism vs. market and capitalist anarchism based on the continuance of the employer-employee relationship in most enterprises.

Self-sufficiency anarchism vs. free market, progressive, capitalistic or futuristic anarchism.

Serious anarchism, backed by social science research deserving the name vs. circus anarchism, from flower power to play power and various other supposed "actions" and "demonstrations".

Sexual reform, sexual anarchy, free-love or sexual freedom anarchism or contractarian diversity anarchism vs. sexually straight or conventional anarchism, sexually moralistic anarchism, stressing the predominant family model as, supposedly valuable or suitable for all.

Situationist anarchism vs. ??? Where are its opponents situated?

Social Darwinist anarchism vs. altruistic anarchism.

Socialist anarchism vs. individualist anarchism.

Spiritual anarchism vs. realistic or practical anarchism.

Speculative, pragmatic and experimental anarchism vs. dogmatic anarchism.

Structured anarchism vs. unstructured anarchism.

Syndicalism vs. individualist anarchism.

Talk-talk-anarchism (philosophical, educational, non-violent, religious anarchism) vs. revolutionary, abolitionist, radical, destructive, propaganda by deed anarchism.

Technological anarchism vs. anti-technology anarchism.

Technophobic anarchism vs. technophilic anarchism. (Anarchists loving liberating technologies, like e.g. the Internet and microfilm options.)

Territorial anarchism vs. exterritorial anarchism.

Terroristic, bomb-throwing, revolutionary, militant anarchism vs. non-violent, philosophical, educational, reformist and individualist anarchism.

Theoretical anarchism vs. pragmatic anarchism.

Tolerant anarchism vs. intolerant anarchism.

Traditional anarchism vs. futuristic or progressive anarchism.

Traditional anarchism vs. revisionist anarchism.

Tyrannicidal anarchism vs. assassinationist anarchism, that wrongly or ill defines its enemies and thus badly serves its cause or sets it back. ("For every tyrant a 1000 ready slaves.") - The tyranny in the slaves ought to be exterminated. Otherwise even a proper tyrannicide is largely in vain. J.Z.)

Unhyphenated anarchism vs. hyphenated anarchism.

Uniform anarchism (one system for all and all for one system) vs. voluntary and diversified anarchisms, all for volunteer communities only: tolerant, competitive and cooperative. To each his own.

Unlimited progress and growth and development, or "no limits!" anarchism, pro science and technology vs. green, conservation, ecology, anti-science, anti-technology, zero population growth, anti-development, back to nature, back to the caves and subsistence economy "anarchism", that loves everything in nature but man and his works and sees in man the greatest threat to the natural life of all other creatures and to himself.

Unlimited vision or space and science fiction anarchism, expanding into the universe vs. dirt-ball earth anarchism, with the urge to remain in this womb and limited horizon and overpopulation notions.

Unstructured anarchism vs. structured anarchism.

Up-wing anarchism vs. left and right - wing anarchism.

Up-wing anarchism vs. retreatist anarchism; back to nature anarchism?

Utopian anarchism vs. practical anarchism, scientific anarchism and rightful & voluntary anarchism.

Violent anarchism vs. non-violent anarchism.

Utopian colony anarchism vs. internationalist anarchism.

Voluntary or voluntaryist anarchism vs. authoritarian, compulsory, uniform, egalitarian and utopian anarchism.

Wishful anarchism, emotional, authoritarian, dogmatic, utopian anarchism vs. realistic, practical, experimental, rational, reformist, gradualist, human rights and revolutionary anarchism.

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There are probably hundreds to thousands of different definitions or terms and explanations or distinctions - but they do not come to my mind at present. Please, point them out to me. I, too, have had access to and have read only a fraction of all anarchist writings.

Regarding "socialism" and about 125 years ago, ca. 500 different definitions were collected and published in, if I remember rightly, a hint given by Ulrich von Beckerath, the first edition of a famous Paris newspaper. (Figaro?1875?) Do even more different denominations or types or characteristics of anarchist "sects" exist by now? Are they as varied as the ca. 7,000 - 8,000 religions, churches and sects are? If so, then this should be clarified for themselves and others, since it would tend to make them and others more tolerant.

All the different versions should be brought to light, at least to the light of microfiche reading machines. All should be closely examined for whatever truths or errors they might contain, by all those who call themselves anarchists or are called anarchists by others.

This subject is too important to let misunderstandings continue to prevail.

In my upcoming SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY Encyclopaedia (The first 4 volumes, 840pp, on 4 microfiche, A-Democracy, are out in my PEACE PLANS series), I have collected a number of definitions of anarchism, probably many less than others already have. I would rather like to leave the job of collecting all such definitions to others. Many of these, if expressed shortly in hyphenated forms, would yield many more terms for this particular listing. The various anarchist FAQ's now offered on the Internet may be a treasure chest for such terms. As well as the thousands to ten-thousands of other sites that at least mention anarchism. An individual can hardly peruse them all. Committed members of the anarchist movement could, between them.

Try to complete, clarify and classify the entries much better than was done in the above draft.

Ponder your own position. How would you best express it in hyphenated form - and how would you best describe your opposites or variants of anarchism that you dislike? Are you prepared to tolerate those you dislike or would you try to suppress or outlaw them or try to convert them to your own version by force?

Some kinds of definitions or terms help to distinguish the essential differences between the different kinds of anarchisms and other isms. E.g. Don Werkheiser's distinction between "single convenience relationships" and "mutual convenience relationships".

Naturally, "the map is not the territory!" but, nevertheless, our descriptions should try to come as close as possible to it.

The advocates of "anarchist unity" or of "un-hyphenated" anarchism should at least attempt to find out which, if any, features of all the different types are common and essential for all of them. To do this, they ought to properly register, define and explain as well as criticize all the hyphenated types. Only then will the come close to a kind of consensus, one at least strong enough to make them tolerant enough towards each other and towards other dissenters.

Need I stress that my inclinations, preferences and convictions are usually expressed on one or the other side only of this listing - but that I have no objection at all if others make other choices for themselves?

Combine or separate the distinctions here made and correct, enter or expand their supposed opposites.

Please, consider: Are there any primary or secondary ideas that could not be applied to some kinds of anarchists, in classifying them in hyphenated form? Is this, thus, an endless job?

When complete, we might end up with a list and short description, including literature title samples and main authors' names, with hundreds of anarchists "faiths", movements, sects, or ideologies, like some democracies or republics end up with hundreds of different political parties and even supposedly

unifying religions, all supposedly believing in a single god only, ended up even with thousands of different faiths and their organizations and rituals.

Alternatively, we might succeed in cleaning our stables sufficiently, turning its manure into useful fertilizer and grow some healthy fruits upon fields fertilized with it, still a variety of fruits, due to invididual tastes, preferences and temperaments - but all supposed to be beneficial for those who

chose them for themselves, without blemishes, diseases or remaining contradictions.

At least some of us might lose some of our blinders and some of our dogmatism and of our intolerance towards dissenters, when perusing, pondering and completing such listings.

Those people patient and tolerant enough to peruse this list should thereby be induced to clarify their own ideas further or to help straighten out remaining errors expressed here.

All-over, such a listing should help to make us more tolerant of our diverse points of view and, perhaps, even more tolerant towards the statists, too, at least to the extent that they can be converted to give up their territorial claims and confine themselves to exterritorially autonomous communities of volunteers.

It seems to me that no degree of ignorance, stupidity or prejudice seems to be so large that it will not be embraced, by all too many, all in the name of "freedom" or "anarchism", for all too many years, if not decades or centuries.

This list may help increase the awareness of this kind of self-defeating "party politics", dogmatism and sectarianism among freedom lovers.

Those who manage to find, peruse and ponder this listing will, hopefully, be forced, by their own degree of rationality, to re-examine their own definitions, assumptions and animosities and to consider a great variety of other ideas as objectively as they can.

Even if not a single one becomes converted to a different or opposite point of view, at least the need for peaceful co-existence and mutual tolerance, as well as for exterritorial autonomy and individual choice will be made somewhat clearer, at least for some. Missionary endeavours of some anarchists towards other anarchists and towards statists will not cease or be greatly reduced, but they will, hopefully, be undertaken upon a wider background knowledge and with more tolerance and patience towards different points of view.

If anarchists and other more self-limiting freedom lovers had not been so incredibly split up among themselves, fighting each other often more than they do their major enemies, e.g. the totalitarians, they often delivered themselves right into the hands of totalitarians. If they bothered to find out what their common features and aspirations are and what would permit them to peacefully coexist, then they would be well on the way to become invincible towards totalitarians and dictatorships and towards all other kinds of territorial statists.

For instance, I have met all too many "anarchists" who took their "egalitarianism" much more serious than the essentially voluntaristic and non-violent and non-interventionist characters of anarchism as a system that does not try to impose its features upon non-aggressive dissenters. To define private property as inherently aggressive does completely misunderstand the nature and function of private property and its relationship to individual rights.

Propertarians permit anti-propertarians to do their own things to themselves at their own risk and expense - but anti-propertarians are not prepared to let propertarians act at their risk and expense. The major bone of contention between them are different concepts regarding rights in land and other natural resources, in which both agree not to consider state granted privileges as basic rights. The anarchists, however, should have seen that there are xyz systems of land title and land use and that only an anarchistic or panarchistic approach to all of them would be rightful, one that would let each such system be practised freely among its adherents, at their own expense and risk, i.e., allowing none of them to be imposed upon its numerous dissenters. - Anarchism, statism, capitalism, socialism, of all kinds, only for consenting adults and their minors, is the message of "panarchism". "To each his own!" if a very old definition of justice.

The various classification schemes, charts and tables for political, economic and social systems (still to be combined in a first LMP microfiche edition) should be compared and an attempt should be made to place each of the above and verbally distinct types into one or several agreed upon survey tables,

schemes, or charts. Here, too, one picture or tabulation may express more than a thousand words could. What seems verbally distinct might then graphically show up as occupying either the same or a very near position.

This listing is anti-copyright. Copy and duplicate freely. Put it on the Internet. But as an initiator of this listing I do claim a "right" to a photocopy or e-mail message of your additions and corrections.

If you can, add typical definitions for each type, also typical representatives and texts.

Since I have my hands full with hundreds of further libertarian

microfiching projects, do not expect any reply or a reply soon.

On the other hand, sooner or later your contribution will end up in one of the LMP microfiche - unless you object, in writing.

Note that I have not yet studied and extracted the lengthy Anarchist Theory FAQ 7.6 for its many notions of anarchism. But I have fiched it, to the extent that it was then completed and wish someone else would undertake the job of extracting all hyphenated anarchism notions from it that are not yet included in this list.

Perhaps I have carried this listing already as far as an individual could or should. It is so easy to become a bore or a partisan or evangelist on any subject. I would rather leave further improvements to other individuals and the open market which they could constitute between them, for this purpose. But whenever others add significant additions or make important corrections, I would like them to notify me of them.

Maybe, in future, we will have an "open" website for it, where each can make his entries immediately accessible to all who visit it. Software for this is under development and expected to be marketed relatively soon.

Are those who do call themselves "libertarians" as seriously split up as are the anarchists? If so, then a similar listing of their differences might help. I would be glad if anyone provided me with such a draft for fiching in my LMP series.

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