And then it is silent. After the pause of that silence, anarchists then mount the stages of their own communities and history and proclaim their , not anarchism's, ideologies-they say how they, how they as anarchists, will make arrangements, describe events, celebrate life, work. Anarchism is the hammer-idea, smashing the chains. Liberty is what results and, in liberty, everything else is up to people and their ideologies. It is not up to THE ideology.
Anarchism says, in effect, there is no such upper case, dominating ideology.
It says that people who live in liberty make their own histories and their own deals with and within it. A person who describes a world in which everyone must or should behave in a single way, marching to a single drummer is simply not an anarchist. A person who says that they prefer this way, even wishing that all would prefer that way, but who then says that all must decide, may certainly be an anarchist. Liberty is liberty. Anarchism is anarchism.