Freedom Cannot Be Dictated: Why Anarcho-Communists Reject the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Freedom, for anarcho-communists, is not a decorative ideal or a rhetorical flourish tacked onto an otherwise rigid political programme. It is the ground upon which everything else stands. Without freedom, there is no communism worth speaking of, only new forms of domination dressed in emancipatory language. This is why anarcho-communists have historically rejected the notion […]