Editing Anarchist communism (section)

=== Individualism and collectivism ===
	
Peter Kropotkin argued that individuals sacrificing themselves for the "greater", or being ruled by the "community" or "society", is not possible because society is composed of individuals rather than being a cohesive unit separate from the individual and argue that collective control over the individual is tyrannical and antithetical to anarchism.<ref>{{Cite wikisource |last=Kropotkin |first=Peter |translator-first=Henry |translator-last=Glasse |date=1886 |title=The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution |pp=14–15}}</ref> Others such as [[Lucien van der Walt]] and Michael Schmidt argue that "[t]he anarchists did not [...] identify freedom with the right of everybody to do exactly what one pleased but with a social order in which collective effort and responsibilities—that is to say, obligations—would provide the material basis and social nexus in which individual freedom could exist." They argued that "genuine freedom and individuality could only exist in a free society" and that in contrast to "misanthropic bourgeois individualism" anarchism was based in "a deep love of freedom, understood as a social product, a deep respect for human rights, a profound celebration of humankind and its potential and a commitment to a form of society where a 'true individuality' was irrevocably linked to 'the highest communist socieability'".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Schmidt |first1=Michael |last2=van der Walt |first2=Lucien |author2-link=Lucien van der Walt |title=[[Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol 1)]] |publisher=[[AK Press]] |date=2009 |page=48 |isbn=978-1-904859-16-1}}</ref>