Anarchy

We talked about anarchy the last week that we got together, and I've been meaning to type this up earlier, but I had no internet in my house for the latter part of vacation. I noticed that there were a couple of misinterpretations of anarchy, what it stands for, how it is achieved, and how it works.

First off, I'll link to a nice FAQ located here.

I am reading a book now titled The Black Flag of Anarchy: Antistatism in the United States, which deals in mainly Individualist Anarchism's history in the United States. In the beginning of the book, there is an introduction to anarchy, and I thought I'd post some ideas on here.

"It is commonly believed that society in a condition of anarchy...would be in complete disorder...This is a fairly cynical viewpoint. It implies that if human beings were left to their own devices they would be so depraved, so lacking in morality that they would quickly revert to a near-animal state..."

"Anarchist have a more romantic approach...They believe in the perfectibility of mankind and that, left to himself and properly educated, man would voluntarily act in an ethical and socially beneficial way. Anarchists are convinced that the individual must be completely free; there must be no authority to dictate his behavior or its limits....the society they form should be established by mutual consent and anyone should be able to withdraw from it whenever he feels..."

Anarchy is the idea that man should live with his own self as the only dictator in his life. They reject any rules, because they are an attempt to limit an individual's freedom. "For him, no government, no matter how liberal, is acceptable." There is a distinction between government, and society, however. There can still be civilized society within an anarchist state.

For many reasons, anarchy is believed to be harder to manage in more populous areas, and that in order to be successful, we should decentralize, and move back to smaller communities. Then we would be allowed, once we had a sound foundation, we could move into bigger communities.

There are many areas to talk about regarding this idea, and most of all your questions should be answered in the FAQ I linked to, so I'm not going to bore you with any more reading, as most areas of the FAQ are all specific as to what they contain.

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