Anarchism predates Marxism, but Marx's critiques were originally a radical extension, expansion, and application of early anarchist theory, which only later metamorphosed among some ideologues into being contemptibly authoritarian. (Marx's middle works and language unfortunately contributed to this, though he seemed to clearly shift toward more libertarian and anarchistic framing in his final years, whose continuity can be found in his early writings on communism, such as in
The German Ideology.) Bakunin himself was effectively a Marxist, or at least Marxian, and used Marxian theory throughout his works, even after being expelled from the First Internationale. Anarchists after him largely took after him in this regard, sharing his contempt for Marxist anti-anarchism and authoritarian tendencies whilst not abandoning Marxian critique altogether, and this only began to change once Kropotkin critiqued Marx's theories and proposed some theoretical and historiographical modifications to it. Even so, Kropotkin agreed with Marx on a number of issues and where he disagreed often tended to resemble a superficial understanding of Marx or conflation of Marxian theory with Marxist ideology.
Eventually, as both anarchism and Marxism massified beyond the confines of intellectual discourses, they both transformed these theoretical and methodological conflicts into identitarian ones, vulgarising what was previously an anarchist tradition that effectively functioned as a heterodox and revisionist protoform of libertarian Marxism / left-communism. (The only remaining holdouts from this at this point were mutualists and others subscribed to pre-Marxian anarchist ideas, i.e. so-called "utopian socialists".) Hitherto, tankies whinge about anarchists all being anarkiddies (a charge I despised, though these days I struggle to disagree) as anarchists whinge about all Marxists being tankies (which I also despised, though it seems to be the case as well, especially within shitholes like this site) and nothing is accomplished except rehearsals in cross-purposes.
So yes, anarchists – as in ideological, dogmatic anti-Marxian anarchists – still exist and they do by the millions. The sooner they die off, the better. This is coming from someone who has identified as an anarchist for years, who never fundamentally saw a theoretical conflict between leftcom and ancom (much to the chagrin of everyone else) and who considered the seething hatred anarchists and Marxists reciprocated to be little more than the ideological equivalent of a race war. And I am indeed anti-Marxist myself, just as I am anti-anarchist and against
every "-ist", but I am not anti-Marx
ian and frankly find those who are to be almost as hopelessly lost as tankies themselves. (They, at least, can be persuaded and are inclined to killing their idols, though; the same can never be said of tankies.)
>>773At that level of simplification, no they are not. I don't know what type of "Post Left Anarchist" you are, but post-left anarchy is generally understood to be significantly influenced by a variety of Marxist/-ian tendencies and schools, including Lettrism, Situationism, autonomism, left-communism, communisation, and the Frankfurt School. Significant influences on many post-lefts include Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Vaneigem, Debord, Adorno, Marcuse, Deleuze, Guattari, Dauvé, Žižek, Wolff, Fisher, and Land, all of whom were or are Marxists or otherwise majorly influenced by Marx and Marxian perspectives.
Usually, it is stupid theorylet anarkiddies who have an allergy to anything Marx and treat everything derived from (or associated with) his theoretical framework to be inevitably authoritarian apologetics with no liberatory potential. Their antipathy is dogmatic and ideological, representing the anarchist perspective at its worst and most illiterate. One of the refreshing parts of post-left discourses is precisely the fact that post-lefties (such as myself) use Marxian theory and critique alongside numerous other frameworks to interpret and change the world. In that sense, just as post-leftism restores leftism and anarchism to their authentic origins, so too does it heal the debilitating scar left by the schism between blacks and reds that has been festering ever since Bakunin's expulsion in the First Internationale. What this means, in practical and non-ideological terms, is that post-lefties are not bound by anarchist dogmata such as anti-Marxian theory and its associated anti-intellectual and anti-theoretical dispositions; just as they are not bound by Marxist dogmata about authoritarian interpretations of socialism, communism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and so on.
If you still cling to these dogmata, and cannot articulate a non-ideological opposition to everything Marxian which convincingly throws it out with the bathwater, then I seriously wonder the extent to which you are "post-left" and what precisely you mean by that.