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Does Kropotkin’s anarchism contain some element of communism?

True anarchy is not the absence of order, but the presence of inner freedom amidst life's chaos.

— Osho
According to Osho, Kropotkin’s anarchism has no element of communism; the two are historic enemies. Anarchists reject any state apparatus, while communism depends on state power and dictatorship to enforce itself, promising a future withering away that anarchists deem impossible. Beyond this debate, Osho stresses inner anarchy—cultivating order within life’s inherent insecurity—over external political arrangements.

No—Kropotkin didn’t mix anarchism with communism; he rejected any state machinery to force equality, and Osho says what really matters is growing inner order in a messy, unsafe world.

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