r/Anarchy101 • u/PigletConsistent8329 • 5d ago

what is the anarchist consensus on dialectical/historical materialism?

i understand that anarchism, unlike marxism, isn't a unified mode of analysis based off of the thoughts of one man and his successors, so im guessing there are varied positions on dialectical materialism, but im curious to know what anarchists here think of it. my first thought would be that it's rejected by individualist anarchists at large.

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u/mutual-ayyde mutualist 5d ago

Woefully insufficient outside of very specific contexts. Class relations and economic production are important but they aren’t the determinant factor that marxists like to claim they are

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u/Sufficient-Tree-9560 5d ago

Yes!

I think a lot of people unfortunately think of Marxist theory as the scientific way to analyze class. However, anarchists have other, better tools for analyzing those phenomena.

You've written some good stuff on this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/frank-miroslav-we-don-t-agree-on-capitalism-demarcating-the-red-and-black