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I asked Google: "book comparing and contrasting anarchism with communism" and it returned a list, it will be interesting to see if any of these are AI hallucinations:
Books and collections
Marxism, Anarchism, Communism: Marx, Karl: This collection includes fundamental texts from both ideologies.
Appears to be a real book, but it's just a collection of:
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
And then invites the reader to draw their own inferences.
Looks like all three are public domain:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23428
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm
Also in the search:
"Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and The State: Three Essays"
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=975
The LLM was very off-base, just recommending random works of theory hardly presents a clear view of the differences between Marxism and anarchism. I wrote a better list and overview myself if you're curious.
I am! Thanks!
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