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You mistake the quote as some kind of combined clause instead of two separate ones. If one can provide nothing, it does not diminish our responsibility to provide for their needs.
No, not at all.
Marxism and its derivatives focus an unhealthy amount of the materialist elements, and ignore the human.
Anarchism does not, it proposes a basic set of ideals and leaves reaching it up the individual communities rather than trying to create a unifying scientific theory that applies to everything.
The human exists in a material world and has needs, regardless of any ideal.
But this isn't about Marxism vs Anarchism. AFAIK the quote originated in the left wing of the French Revolution and Kropotkin identified as an anarcho communist because of it. Graeber also refers to it here and there.
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