"… it is a fact that there exists among the anarchists a self-styled individualist minority which is a permanent cause of unpleasantness and weakness. And, now that the anarchists are in a ferment over preparations for the future, it is worthwhile to re-examine the question calmly and without preconceptions. I shall do so briefly from my point of view as a communist or associationist; others will do so, should they wish, from the individualist point of view. (I use the word ‘associationist’ as an alternative to the word ‘communist,’ not because I like pointless new jargon, but because I forsee the possibility that the communist anarchists will gradually abandon the term ‘communist’; it is growing in ambivalence and falling into disrepute as a result of Russian ‘communist’ despotism. If the term is eventually abandoned this will be a repetition of what happened with the word ‘socialist.’
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-individualism-and-communism-in-anarchism
