What is Anarchy?

[Nihilist_santa]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think that in a society where you're more directly responsible for your life, that it would be more possible to do with less governing bodies.. Probably approaching, but never actually reaching a state of no government.

You are directly responsible for your life now. When you work you enter into an agreement with an employer about how much your labor is worth. Dont like it? Quit. What happens in a system with little oversight when a group of people decide they want what you have? You have to manage a defense for your property( please lets not discuss abolishing personal property) and in doing so you are establishing a system like government. This is how society was started people went from hunter-gatherer to cultivation and when they managed to amass a surplus someone had to make sure that it was protected. This is where your government comes from.

Utopian ideas always seem to require the system being in place first which is why they wont work. You cant remove the old system in its entirety and people will have their own wills,desires, and beliefs which can compromise any system. You might as well say "if everyone got along the world would be a better place." Human nature is the problem and you are not going to change that nature by simply placing humans in a new environment.

Our own system has been turned from a constitutional democratic republic to this myth of a democracy which always precedes a tyranny according to Plato. The republic as envisioned is very decentralized and would be much closer to the type of anarchy Chompsky is advocating minus the socialist economic ideas.