I think that different “flavors” of anarchism really would prefigure distinct societal outcomes. I do think there are many potential ways to arrange a classless, stateless society and and they’re all anarchism but some would indeed be more or less preferable for different people. So exploring these various theories and organizational concepts really does matter, not that one is necessarily better than another but because they make us ask questions previously unconsidered about what we really want, why we want it, and how we’d most prefer it operate should we achieve it.

For my part I really like communalism, and it’s agenda libertarian municipalism. I like how Bookchin went into serious philosophical consideration concerning how to operate truly durable and honest social institutions, honest about how to practically operate communal deliberation and honest about the fact that social institution itself is inescapable, important, and perfectly compatible. I like how the whole thing is founded on the philosophy of social ecology, which hold us accountable to our responsibility for our surroundings. And I like how municipalism is a practical, step-by-step process to building dual power beginning at the hyper-local level in a way that prefigures communalist outcomes through education and face-to-face practice.