Talk:Social anarchism

How is this different from libertarian socialism?
Reading over this article, I'm not sure how well it disambiguates from our article on libertarian socialism. This article often uses libertarian socialism as a synonym with social anarchism and, as a result, cites some sources that mention "libertarian socialism" but not "social anarchism".

Which begs the question: are these two concepts actually different or just two terms for the same tendency? If they are different concepts, then that needs to be made explicitly clear. If they are the same thing, then these articles should probably be merged. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:14, 24 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Ok. I have now rebuilt this article using reliable sources that verifiably use the term "social anarchism". This should be a better skeleton from which this article can be built on and improved in the future. To any future article contributors reading this: please stick to sources that actually use the terminology, or this can very quickly spiral out into a mess of original research once again. Regards. -- Grnrchst (talk) 18:42, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Relevance of Paul Thagard?
In the Criticism section, Paul Thagard's criticism takes up a third of the section. He is a philosopher of science and cognition, his epistemic authority on the subject of anarchism seems disputable.

What are your thoughts? vic (talk) 02:19, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm not wedded to Thagard being included. Honestly I'm not even sure a dedicated criticism section is necessary for the article. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:35, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Removed it. vic (talk) 15:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)