who else here is an anarchist?

Question

i would like to read what people have to say about this and just remember i will reply

Answer 1

always have been

Answer 2

I used to consider myself an communo-anarchist. I mean the idea of people working together for a common good of the community without the need of a government or overseeing force is a great utopian idea, and it works well in small tribal communities, but I "lost my faith" as it were.

I realized that man by nature is one greedy son of a *****, and though I aspire to go beyond that I came to find that the majority of people won't, so I gave up. If you can keep the dream going then more power to ya'. But I'll take my jaded nihilism and go thank you.

Answer 3

I like you because you consider yourself to be a Satanist. :-) (I'm one, myself...)

But I can honestly say that I'll NEVER consider myself to be an anarchist. Anarchy is the furthest far-left form of government there can ever be. I consider myself to be either extremely right-wing, or extremely left-wing.

I'm a Leftie because I believe that people should have more rights than they are allocated. They shouldn't be so damn limited by harrassing governments. I'm also a Rightie because I want to be a part of a government called a "Benevolent Dictatorship" aka an "Enlightened Despotism." This was originally written by Plato in "The Republic" and it talked about a series of neighboring villages who were ruled by a group of kings... None of the people had a lot of say-so in the government, but there really wasn't much to say. The people would talk to the kings and the kings would try and make laws for the people. They wouldn't follow their own agendas. They'd try and make the lives of the people easier. I want to be one of those kings. :-p

Anarchy has never appealed to me; I'll be honest. I don't think it would be an efficient government at all. Total and complete anarchy would mean that there is NO government intervention, whatsoever... and that you're free to do whatever you do. It's an idea strongly associate with modernized nonconformity.

But think of this:
We're all hard-core nonconformists and we don't listen to anyone... not even when they tell us to "have a seat." (Ok, maybe not THAT far, lol). Anyway, what's going to happen when we have to throw away our garbage? There isn't going to be any garbage man coming with his truck to collect it... because waste disposal and management is a government program. What about City Power management officials? What about the phone-line inspectors? What about the libraries? Everything will run amok and there'll be chaos everywhere... until everyone gets their heads out of their a$ses and starts to organize.

What'll they all say? "Ok! Ok! We all have to agree that this form of government isn't working. How about we start rebuilding a work force? The doctors can continue working in the hospitals, the firemen can continue..." What'll happen? They'll create a slightly more functional government... probably a direct democracy or something of the sort. But from then, corruption will start to rise because nobody will be getting paid... so capitalism will kick in, and blah blah blah. You're back at square one.

Anarchy won't work. Fascism won't work. Communism won't work. Any FAR-left or FAR-right government will never work for the benefit of the majority. You have to go a few notches away from the "FAR-zone" for it to work (even slightly).

Anarchy: won't work
Communism: won't work
Utopian Socialism: won't REALLY work (it might, in some cases...)
Direct Democracy: will work in some conditions (worked for the ancient Greeks)
Representative Democracy: will work, but corruption is rampant (look at the ancient Romans... Julius Caesar was killed)
Oligarchy: will work in some instances... if the people in power are FOR the rights of the people and not against them...
Monarchy: won't work unless the king or queen is FOR the rights of the people and not against them... (which will never happen...)
Benevolent Dictatorship: will work
Dictatorship: will never work
Feudalism: ha! will never work
Relgiously-controlled State: will never work
Worker-ant colony (ie. gov't which propagates slave ownership): will never work

These are some forms of governments listed from Far-left to Far-Right... and listed if they'll be popular and efficient forms of governments... or not.

Answer 4

I'm not. I strongly believe that humankind needs representation and a level of organisation that we call 'government'. I think that the ideal government is one that provides us with the organisational ability to prevent people from 'falling through the cracks' and to provide us with the basic needs of human life. The ideal government should be a tool through which we can direct and consolidate our efforts to imrove the world. Together we can do more than we can accomplish individually. That's what government ought to be for me.

Are there any governments like that in the world? No. Of course 'leaders' are self-serving (it's a bit implicit in the title 'leader', actually). But you can't condemn the _concept_ of government by criticising existing governments. If this life is really a quest for altruism in whatever form that may take, we need to believe that others - including politicians - are capable of it as well.

'Power corrupts' only as a result of our socialisation. It doesn't have to.

Answer 5

Anarchy has always been fun to contemplate, especially when I was younger. If you are referring to the complete form of anarchy, I always felt I was well equipped to deal with it, and thought it might be interesting to see just how big an empire I could carve out. Those were the halcyon days of youth, though, and now I fear I would be the victim rather than the carver all too quickly.

Answer 6

I could say I'm a commie. Anarchist? It depends. My head is an anarchy.

Answer 7

Your mom is.

What? I'm an anarchist, too!

Did that make sense? No.

Answer 8

"A touch of anarchy is the birthright of every American."

Answer 9

boris the spider says he is.