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Ah, I see. I may just have to read him - I'm lecturing on Marx next month, and trying to bone up on my historical context.

I've always been a bit curious re: anarcho-communism. Like Bakunin, I suppose, the two theories seem to me to be in much more tension than a lot of contemporary anarchists seem to think. In fact, anarchism is ideologically closer to libertarianism in many ways...

The Political Compass shows dimensions for Left/Right, Authoritarian/Libertarian splits.

http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/index.html

So you can someone like Martin Friedman be in the Right Wing Libertarian section, some like Stalin in the Left Wing Authoritarian, the basic Green Party in the Left Wing Libertarian, and the mainstream parties life Democrats, Republicans, Tories, Conservatives, Labour would all be the Right Wing Authoritarian.

It's not black and white, because the people and parties and ideas are on a 2 dimensional continuum.