Are you an anarchist?

[SlowwHand]

Anarchy.

Looks like we have a list of nominees for ACS '**** Award.

[Az]

curse you! We Pseudo-Marshmello Artificial Bananists will hunt each one of you down some day!

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[Messer Niccolò]

Anarchy doesn't exist.

Bananysm enlightens us...

[SlowwHand]

Banana

[Spiffor]

Definitely not anarchist. I don't believe a cohesive society can exist without rules or someone to enforce them.

[monkspider]

Anarchy is inevitable, but it is further down the road than socialism. I would say we should expect it sometime around 2020, give or take a year or two. People often think anarchy has sinister conotations, but all it is really is mankind evolving beyond the need for governments.

[VetLegion]

No. The Party of Moderate Progress Within Limits of the Law is where I stand politicaly.

[GePap]

Fanatical anarchism is the political notion I find most abhorrent of all. No, I am not an anarchist, never will be, though I object less to the anarcho-syndicalist notions someone like Ramo supports.

[Starchild]

Depends what day of the month it is. Ideally, I'd link worker owned businesses competing in a free market environment with little to no government support. Emotionally, I tend to connect far more to the city-state concept than the nation concept. When people ask where I'm from, I'm more likely to mention the city I live in than the country. I consider myself a Torontonian (though mainly because I'm not Canadian yet lived in near Toronto for years.)

[Az]

What really cracks me up, though, is Anarcho-fascism.

( I know you have nothing to do with that, Ramo)

monkspider, why do you think that this would be a good thing?

[nationalist]

I have some pretty authoritarian view points

[ThePlagueRat]

Pre-20th century Anarchism has some interresting point of views.
(Ideologically speaking) You just need to understand the philosophies, and take it for what it is.

I got somthing I call the Cardamom-law:

"Thou shalt not plague others, thou shalt be nice and fair...
but otherwise thou shall do what thou wilt"


It's pretty anarchistic isn't it?

[alva]

Originally posted by monkspider
Anarchy is inevitable, but it is further down the road than socialism. I would say we should expect it sometime around 2020, give or take a year or two. People often think anarchy has sinister conotations, but all it is really is mankind evolving beyond the need for governments.

I'm affraid your timing is of by a couple of centuries, but I do agree with you.

To me anachy (among other things) means no laws. Most people don't really need a law to tell them what is right and was is wrong. This doesn't mean that there shouldn't be any rules(guidelines) to organise things.

[nationalist]

Originally posted by monkspider
Anarchy is inevitable, but it is further down the road than socialism. I would say we should expect it sometime around 2020, give or take a year or two. People often think anarchy has sinister conotations, but all it is really is mankind evolving beyond the need for governments.

Sorry Monk, but you have waaaaaay too much faith in your fellow man. You live in the U.S. Do you really think that the inner city will evolve beyond the need foy laws in 15-20 years? Do you think that all of our social problems will solve themselves? There would be unimaginable violence the second that laws and authority disappear, because there woiuld be nothing to restrain people from doing and taking whatever they wanted. Anarchy would last about five minutes unitl the military would step in take control.

I don't think that anarchy will ever "evolve" because people are still peole. They have wants and desires, and always will have them, even the most "wise and enlightend" individuals. Some people will inevitably develop mental illnesses and go on a killing spree. How would an anarchic "society" deal with a madman who is slaughtering people? Would they unite to protect themselves from him? The formation of these types of groups would be the beginning of government, just as the Enlightenment thinker Hobbes had envisioned in the "State of Nature" Anarchy is the Sate of Nature, and humanity would never stay in this state. Why would anyone want to? I am glad that we have a government. People can't control themselves or take persoanal responsibility for themselves as is. Why do you think that all of the sudden everyone will be able to? Also, Anarchy would require use revert to a primative lifestyle, simply because there is no societal structure to create materials or provide goods. How many of you anarchists can build a car or a computer from scratch? How many of you know how to farm effectively or to build a house? There are going to be some cold, hungry days ahead from you when the government declares itself useless.

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Azazel
What really cracks me up, though, is Anarcho-fascism.

( I know you have nothing to do with that, Ramo)

monkspider, why do you think that this would be a good thing?

It's not so much a thing that can be seen as subjectively good or it's just a future stage in human evolution. I am not an anarchist by any sense of the defintion, i just realize that once man becomes wise enough, governments will no longer be needed. As I said, this is further down the road than socialism.