Anarchists argue that it is not the whole bourgeoisie who has control over the means of production and the state, but only a minority of them, which is part of the ruling class, but has its own concerns.

Further, some Anarchists argue that Marxism fails because it springs from the minds of middle class intellectuals, while arguing that anarchism springs spontaneously from the self-activity and self-organization of the labor class.

Anarchists, other political movements and a lot of theorists criticize classical Marxism for giving class priority and argue that this way of explaining social movements denigrates other oppressions, which operate with their own independent dynamics.

Anarchists and other libertarian socialists argue that police and law themselves are oppression.

Anarchists argue that the state is in fact an artificial creation of the ruling elite, and that true spontaneous order would arise if it was eliminated.

Anarchists generally argue that private defense and court firms would have to have a good reputation in order to stay in business.

Anarchists and some other libertarians typically argue against the legitimacy of political representation although most libertarians accept the concept of delegation.

Anarchists reject the Leninist model of the " dictatorship of the proletariat ," arguing that any revolutionary minority taking over state power would be just as authoritarian as the ruling class in capitalism to defend the new state, and would eventually constitute itself as a new ruling class.

Anarchists believe that the state is inherently an instrument of domination and repression, no matter who is in control of it.

" We believe, as most Anarchists do, that prisons serve no useful function and should be abolished along with the state.

Left communists, Anarchists and some Trotskyists contend that the so-called " communist " or " socialist " states or " people's states " were actually state capitalist and thus cannot be called " socialist ".

The first Congress of the Confederation of Anarchists Groups, under the name of Nabat (" the Alarm Drum "), issued five main principles: rejection of all political parties, rejection of all forms of dictatorships ( including the dictatorship of the proletariat, viewed by Makhnovists and many anarchists of the day as a term synonymous with the dictatorship of the Bolshevik communist party ), negation of any concept of a central state, rejection of a so-called " transitional period " necessitating a temporary dictatorship of the proletariat, and self-management of all workers through free local workers ' councils ( soviets ).

Anarchists believe that any state — be it a worker's state or a bourgeois state — will inevitably be created and ruled by a political and economic elite, therefore becoming an organ of class domination.

Anarchists contend that the " workers ' state " advocated by Marxists is a logical impossibility since, as soon as a group-be it the workers-begins to govern by means of a state apparatus, they gain power and become oppressors.

Democratic Socialists, left communists, Anarchists and some Trotskyists claim that the so-called " socialist states " or " people's states " were actually state capitalist and thus cannot be called " socialist ".

Anarchists wish to eliminate all forms of state control, of which imprisonment is seen as one of the more obvious examples.

Platformism is a tendency within the wider anarchist movement based on the organisational theories in the tradition of Dielo Truda's Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists ( Draft ).

In France, a distinction is made between the left ( Socialist Party and Communist Party ) and the far left ( Trotskyists, Maoists and Anarchists ).

" Rational Anarchists " believe that the concepts of State, Society and Government have no existence but for the " acts of self-responsible individuals ", but concede that this is not a universal belief.

The Anarchists is a book by the historian James Joll.

Anarchists is a 2000 South Korean action film, directed by Yu Yong-Sik and written by Park Chan-wook.

The " So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup " FAQ repeats a common joke that the name " alt " is an acronym for " Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists ".

The distribution of Resistance is free although usually donations are requested, the audience also includes many unaffiliated Anarchists, Communists and workers.

Classical Anarchists believed that this is only possible through the redistribution of land.

Anarchists contend that Marxism fails, and will always fail, because it creates a dictatorship of the coordinating technocratic / managerial class and that a " dictatorship of the proletariat " is a logical impossibility.

Anarchists and similar radicals often claim that their use of “ political violence ” is not terrorism, arguing that there is a fundamental difference between bombings carried out against a civilian population and assassinations carried out against people in positions of political, military, or economic power ( even if non-combatants under international law ).

Carrara is the birthplace of the International Federation of Anarchists ( IFA ), formed in 1968.

Anarchists were met with the severest repression ; a famous example is the mass arrest and resulting torture of anarchist prisoners at the castle of Montjuich in Barcelona in 1892.

Anarchists responded in turn with a number of assassinations, the most famous of which is the murder of Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier.

Dietzgen's words and life have for some underscored the unity that existed on the political left at the time of the First International, before Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Social Democrats were later divided: " For my part, I lay little stress on the distinction, whether a man is an anarchist or a socialist, because it seems to me that too much weight is attributed to this difference.

Anarchists Against the Wall ( AAtW ), sometimes called " Anarchists Against Fences " or " Jews Against Ghettos ", is a direct action group composed of Israeli anarchists and anti-authoritarians who oppose the construction of the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier and Israeli West Bank barrier.

... Anarchists who rebel against every sort of oppression and struggle for the integral liberty of each and who ought thus to shrink instinctively from all acts of violence which cease to be mere resistance to oppression and become oppressive in their turn are also liable to fall into the abyss of brutal force.

Anarchists such as Leo Tolstoy and Francisco Ferrer y Guardia emphasized education as a force for political liberation, secularism, and elimination of class distinctions.

Most of the remaining Anarchists seek to return to Sigil in force to become its new rulers.

Most of the remaining Anarchists seek to return to Sigil in force to become its new rulers.

Anarchists were ejected and not allowed in mainly because of the pressure from marxists.

Anarchists also oppose prisons because they house non-violent offenders ( e. g., thieves and swindlers instead of just murderers and rapists ), incarcerate mainly poor people and ethnic minorities, and do not generally rehabilitate criminals, in many cases making them worse.

Although he was not personally involved in the bombing of the Communist Party headquarters, Chernyi was, because of his association with the Underground Anarchists, a likely candidate for a frameup.

Anarchists oppose government, not because they disbelieve in punishment of crime and resistance to aggression, but because they disbelieve in compulsory protection.

: (" Anarchists "), who believe that social order and man-made laws are inherently corrupt and must be destroyed — though none of their members can agree on what, if anything, should replace them.

While not entirely dissimilar to collectivist anarchism ( as can be seen from James Guillaume's famous work " On Building the New Social Order " within Bakunin on Anarchism, the collectivists did see their economic system evolving into free communism ), Communist Anarchists developed, deepened and enriched Bakunin's work just as Bakunin had developed, deepened and enriched Proudhon's.