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Anarchist / Libertarian Socialist general for all those anarchists that don't behave like liberals and aren't anti-communist. Anyone else is welcome to discuss too. Recommend books that aren't by Kropotkin. Friendly reminder that Marx is also our comrade for those leddit babies.

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Libertarian Marxist here. Strongly recommending Anton Pannekoek, Daniel DeLeon and Rosa Luxemburg.

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I'm thinking of asking some of the holocaust survivors I work with in the holocaust museum about their experience after the war in the eastern block. Anyone interested?

This.

I think Malatesta is severely unrated. His works are very clear and emphatic and he wastes no time in getting to his point. At the Cafe is really great, since it basically lists all the common objections to Anarchism from statists of all kinds and capitalists and provides their refutations. The dialogue style makes it very easy to read.

What kind of anarchist is against communism besides the very few Individualists and Marketeers? Unless you mean anti-"communist" as in anti-leninist, then by the definition of anarchism you must be.
Marx was a very important analysis of the economy and his work has not be surpassed; he was most definitely not a comrade to Anarchism.

Not what I was implying.

Unless you're using an autistic definition of "communist", anti-communist anarchist is an oxymoron.
Bakunin is underread and that is a shame. Platformism should be seriously looked at as well. Malatesta should be read because his work is easy to read and gives yoiu a good idea how to write or talk to people, something most leftist sorely lack.
Everyone should at least give Capital a read. That said we should be very wary of certain Marxists, namely Trots.

Then why would you not think of political Marxism in libertarian/authoritarian terms?

Because communism isn't a supermarket where you pick whatevery utopia you want. communism in an actual historical movement. It doesn't matter whether you want it to be "libertarian" or "authoritarian".