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I mean, the best understanding is still probably going to come from some Russian guy. Also, he isn't random, he is literally the guy responsible for general awareness of the fundamental workings of economics.
I want you to go read Value, Price, and Profit. It's short, like 50 pages long, and written for the masses. This book explains what money is better than any singular resource out there.
Socialism is when the profits go to the people, communism is when profits go to the government, and capitalism is when the profit goes to an individual.
Anarchy means society dictates its rules as an autonomous collective more than anything. It's doesn't mean "no rules" it means "no rulers". Nobody really explains what that means because no society really does it in the modern day. It's all theoretical what it would look like.
Economic policy and social policy aren't necessarily related in that they don't depend on each other. You can be a capitalist anarchist or a socialist Republic or a communist monarchy or whatever, one is money the other is people.
Sooooome 'economic' arrangements do preclude freedom, call very loudly for autocracy.
You can be an authoritarian capitalist monarchist or an authoritarian communist monarchist, but you cant really be an anarchist without notions of 'productivity' that privilege labor or a great deal of egalitarianism