These two institutions, and the money monopoly of the state, effectively prevent most people from being economically independent, and force them into wage labor. Saying that coercion does not exist is capitalist economic relations because workers aren't forced to work by armed capitalists ignores the very real economic coercion caused by this alliance of capitalism and the state. McElroy also makes invalid assumptions about strategic differences between communist and individualist anarchists. Surely, communists are as likely as individualists to leaflet tenants encouraging them to refuse to pay rent or to resist eviction. Communists don't routinely put guns to people's heads as their primary method of organizing for anarchy, Many individualists, as well as many communists, however, do support violence in self-defense.
Communist anarchists are also as likely to be means-oriented as individualists.
I know some communist or collectivist anarchists, and although we differ in our economic preferences, they are as committed to voluntaryism as I am. McElroy, however, seems to share the conventional view that most communist anarchists are closet authoritarians and potential bombthrowers, and implies that communist economic arrangements are less likely to be voluntary than capitalist ones, an assumption with no basis in fact. I do not quarrel with McElroy's definition of herself as an individualist anarchist. However, I dislike the fact that she tries to equate the term with anarchist capitalism. This is simply not true.