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First of all anarchism is an ideology

Communism is a stateless classless moneyless society with the means of production owned by the commons and de-commodification of the necessities

Anarchism is a rejection of authority and the constructed hierarchies that justify it

Communism, in dismantling the state and capitalism dismantles two hierarchies of oppression that anarchists are interested in dismantling, but not all of them, others include Speciesism Colonialism Racism Patriarchy Ableism Sanism Ageism Cisheteronormativity Mononormativity etc, see Total Liberation Anarcha-feminism and Queer Anarchism

#Leftism #Socialisn #Communism #Anarchism #AnarchoCommunism #Speciesism #Colonialism #Racism #Patriarchy #Ableism #Sanism #Ageism #Cisheteronormativity #Mononormativity #TotalLiberation #AnarchaFeminism #QueerAnarchism

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4. Bullying and abuse of power in intra-church disputes. More often than you might expect in an organisation allegedly founded on the life and teachings of a victim of abused power, many of those who dominate church life do so with the typical tactics of the bully: grooming, intimidation, gaslighting, manipulation, dog-whistles, merely performative contrition (when absolutely necessary), and occasionally outright violence.

5. Embrace of a hard-right political agenda (or willingness to ally themselves with the same): creeping #authoritarianism, #ClimateDenial (or its even more insidious cousin #ClimateDelay), #xenophobia, denial/minimisation of colonial violence and its legacy, oppression of the poor, victim-blaming, and generally a more-or-less vociferous support for a status quo of #plutocracy, #imperialism, #neocolonialism and #patriarchy + #cisheteronormativity.

There are other factors, but in my experience talking with people who have left the church, or who have stopped identifying as Christian, or who have abandoned faith (NB these three are not synonymous), almost 100% cited one or more of these five reasons (often all of them) amongst their primary motives.