Editing Libertarian socialism (section)

=== Anarchist ===
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The currents of [[classical anarchism]] that developed in the 19th century were committed to autonomy and freedom, decentralization, opposing hierarchy, and opposing the [[vanguardism]] of [[authoritarian socialism]].

In the 20th century, [[social anarchism]] emerged as a significant current of anarchism and explicitly identified as libertarian socialist. Anarcho-syndicalist [[Gaston Leval]] explained: "We therefore foresee a Society in which all activities will be coordinated, a structure that has, at the same time, sufficient flexibility to permit the greatest possible autonomy for social life, or for the life of each enterprise, and enough cohesiveness to prevent all disorder. [...] In a well-organised society, all of these things must be systematically accomplished by means of parallel federations, vertically united at the highest levels, constituting one vast organism in which all economic functions will be performed in solidarity with all others and that will permanently preserve the necessary cohesion".<ref>Leval, Gaston (1959). [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gaston-leval-libertarian-socialism-a-practical-outline "Libertarian Socialism: A Practical Outline"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808110924/https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gaston-leval-libertarian-socialism-a-practical-outline |date=2019-08-08 }}. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via The Anarchist Library.</ref>

Significant thinkers in the anarchist tradition who are described as libertarian socialist include [[Colin Ward]] and [[David Graeber]].<ref name="r993">{{cite journal | last=Stevenson | first=Nick | title=E. P. Thompson and Cultural Sociology: Questions of Poetics, Capitalism and the Commons | journal=Cultural Sociology | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=11 | issue=1 | date=27 September 2016 | issn=1749-9755 | doi=10.1177/1749975516655462 | pages=11–27| url=https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/file/843223/1/thompson%2520cultural%2520poetic%2520commons%25201.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roos |first=Jerome |date=2020-09-04 |title=The anarchist: How David Graeber became the left's most influential thinker |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2020/09/the-anarchist-how-david-graeber-became-the-lefts-most-influential-thinker |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=New Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref>