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Are You a Candidate for Anarchism?

Brickjectivity

wind and rain touch not this brain
Staff member
Premium Member
Well are you?

What is anarchism?

How would it "work"?

Could it "work"?

If a magic wand was waved now and there was anarchy globally, could humanity adjust and retain anarchy?

And other questions.
If you shortened the life cycle to 13 or 14 years you could. Or perhaps if you shortened the time for childhood to 2 months in the womb and a year to teenage you could greatly reduce the human reliance upon systems. Mothers would only need about a year to raise their kids, and then they could go into a state of anarchy for the rest of their lives.
 

Vouthon

Dominus Deus tuus ignis consumens est
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Premium Member
The guy in my avatar is certainly a candidate, imho.

As someone who tries to model his own ethics on Jesusism (however much I habitually fail in practice!)...

Well, I'd like to think that I'd make a decent anarchist given the right social milieu for a kind of libertarian socialist system.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Candidate for anarchism?
If elected, I will not serve!

However, I'd consider anachranism anachronism.
 
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an anarchist

Your local anarchist.
Well are you?

What is anarchism?

How would it "work"?

Could it "work"?

If a magic wand was waved now and there was anarchy globally, could humanity adjust and retain anarchy?

And other questions.
My type of thread :)
My anarchism is anarcho-capitalism, so it’s different from the anarchist socialists, which is in the majority.
So all property would be privatized when this wand was waved. No more public property! How would that look like? Is this the best solution for conflict avoidance, the very purpose of property norms?
Law and order? Isn’t the state responsible for law and order? How can it exist without one?
No policemen? No military? What in the world?
Who would build the roads?
I’ll get back to you :p after some reading and possibly after work too.
I’d like to give a satisfactory answer to this thread, so I gotta get a bit smarter first.
 

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Well are you?

What is anarchism?

How would it "work"?

Could it "work"?

If a magic wand was waved now and there was anarchy globally, could humanity adjust and retain anarchy?

And other questions.
True anarchy, as I understand it, would basically just be a big reset button. Tribes and groups will form and the ones with more power will dominate the ones with less power, grow bigger and unite with others to grow even bigger yet. In a few centuries we'd start seeing large colonies form and, in another few decades, countries.

You can't enforce anarchy.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Well are you?

What is anarchism?

How would it "work"?

Could it "work"?

If a magic wand was waved now and there was anarchy globally, could humanity adjust and retain anarchy?

And other questions.

Well we already sort of have anarchy anyway. Or at least we started out that way.

It would probably work like that gangster planet in the Star Trek episode "A Piece of the Action."
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
Well are you?

What is anarchism?

How would it "work"?

Could it "work"?

If a magic wand was waved now and there was anarchy globally, could humanity adjust and retain anarchy?

And other questions.
I'm an anarchist ever since I read Proudhon and Godwin in (our equivalent of) high school.

I think anarchy can work if the majority of citizens are anarchists. That's why neither the "magic wand" nor a revolution can work. Only when most people react like @Revoltingest "If elected, I will not serve!" and of course "If you are elected, I will not serve you."

A major problem for anarchism is, as @Brickjectivity eluded to, children who do not thrive under anarchism. They need some authority, at least until they can understand anarchism and learn to love it.

I think the natural form of anarchism will be anarcho-syndicalism not anarcho-capitalism which @Xavier Graham favours. I wouldn't want to exchange one authority (the state) for another (the boss). I don't like to be commanded - and I don't like to command.
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Candidate for anarchism?
If elected, I will not serve!

However, I'd consider anachranism.
I think you need to watch your spelling: :oops:

Word origin: MGr anachronismos < anachronizein, to refer to a wrong time < Gr ana-, against + chronos, time

Anarchy? Not for me I think, given that the wealthy will likely still be in charge. :oops:
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Well are you?

What is anarchism?

How would it "work"?

Could it "work"?

If a magic wand was waved now and there was anarchy globally, could humanity adjust and retain anarchy?

And other questions.
Anarchy runs counter to human nature.
People always seek power over others.
I prefer to accept that this happens, &
instead design government & policies
to maximize liberty.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I think you need to watch your spelling: :oops:

Word origin: MGr anachronismos < anachronizein, to refer to a wrong time < Gr ana-, against + chronos, time

Anarchy? Not for me I think, given that the wealthy will likely still be in charge. :oops:
If I knew how to spell, I prolly would be out
in the real world doing something useful.
Instead, I'm here.
 
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