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"Autonomous Marxist is a fairly good descriptive term for 75% of anarchists."

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, ironic, or iconoclastic. regardless, it's silly. Perhaps in the theoretically incoherent days prior to the Second International a case could be made for this to be factual, but at least since the time that self-declared Marxists gained state power in Russia, the possible overlaps of philosophy, theory, and analysis have been eclipsed by the homicidal actions of Leninists, the left wing of international social democracy, beginning in April 1918. Then a few months later, the right wing of international social democracy in Germany, who also called themselves Marxists, recruited the proto-fascist Freikorps to drown the independent revolution in blood. Contemporary "Autonomous Marxists" retain a connection to the actions of self-identified Marxists, and therefore have a responsibility to explain the counter-revolutionary actions of other Marxists throughout history -- the same as those cretinous "Liberation Theologians" and "Christian Anarchists" have a responsibility to explain the despicable actions of other Christians throughout history. It's not nearly good enough to declare that those others aren't "real" Marxists or "real" Christians. (Incidentally, the same goes for anarchists, who have a responsibility to explain the stupidities of other anarchists throughout history.)