is anarchy evil or anti god???????????

Question

plz help me my dad thinks its evil and i dont what is it is anarchy evil??????????????????????/

Answer 1

No. Anarchy actually started as a protest or backlash against the rie of communism vs. capitalism and was aimed at restoring Peace. Only afterthe protests when police interfered did people get violent.

Answer 2

Your dad sounds like he's working off of the popular misconception of what anarchy is: a bunch of leftists (who are all godless, by definition) looting stores, squatting in abandoned buildings, and paving the way for communism.

As others have pointed out, anarchy is simply the absence of a government. I can see how some people might regard gov't as such an essential institution that the lack of it would automatically be regarded as a very bad thing. And to be fair, a lot of people are too dependent on gov't (like religion) to be able to live without it. Some people just aren't ready for anarchy and couldn't get by in an anarchic society.

I think it's for that reason that although I think anarchy could work in theory, it could only work in practice with a limited group of people. Myself, I'm a libertarian minarchist. A minarchist is one who recognizes the need for _some_ gov't, but insists that it be the absolute least amount necessary. That includes the least amount of taxes, laws, regulations, services & departments, and the gov't should not be doing anything that could be handled by the private sector or volunteer groups (including welfare).

In the realm of sci-fi literature, there's a short story in the Vernor Vinge book "Across Realtime" called "The Ungoverned" that you might find a good read. Many Robert A. Heinlein books (especially my fave, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") have strong anarchy & anti-gov't themes.

You also might want to educate yourself a bit more on the different flavors of anarchy including anarchosocialism (an oxymoron IMHO) and anarchocapitalism. Below are some links to these subjects that should give you some ammo in trying to reason with your dad. Good luck!

Answer 3

No, anarchy is not "evil" or "anti-god."

Look at the origins of the Greek word 'anarchos' - which means 'leaderless'. If your dad can prove how being without a leader is evil - let him try. If others think anarchy is "anti-god" - that is because they mistake the opposition to the power of the church (organized religions) with the denial of a higher spiritual being.

Anarchy is anti-authoritarian. For some a leader is necessary, and for others the belief in a higher spiritual being is necessary - Anarchists oppose the abuse of authority and the abuse of the belief in a higher spiritual being.

Anarchists opposed Stalin in Russia, and Hitler in Germany.

Answer 4

To start off, look the word up in a dictionary. Dictionary.com is a good resource if you don't have a paper dictionary laying around.

Heck, I'll even save you the trouble. Dictionary.com lists the following definitions:

1. a state of society without government or law.
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control.
3. a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.
4. confusion; chaos; disorder.

So it would seem that anarchy is a philosophy that rejects external authority. This could include anything from the authority of human governments to the authority of God.

Answer 5

In regards to the individual suggesting a pro-capitalist "anarchism", it should be noted that anarchism has been entirely anti-capitalist (see: anti-exploitation) since its formation as a coherent school of thought, and only in the last thirty years or so have some academics in the United States tried to use the title of "anarchism" to describe their idea of an entirely for-profit social order (including all courts, police, emergency services, etc.). The vast majority of anarchists around the world see "anarcho"-capitalism as a contradiction, and an usurpation of what anarchism has historically meant. "Libertarian" also used to mean anarcho-socialist, before the same individuals began using that term as well.

To the actual question, anarchy is not quite so simple as others have tried to define it. Anarchy as a political system is not simply a lack of a government. It is an opposition to all coercion and exploitation in any form, and asserts that all social interactions and relationships must be voluntary. Since the state is simply those individuals who hold a monopoly on coercive force within a given territory (usually in the interest of a privileged and exploiting class of individuals, whether it be politicians, bureaucrats or the economic elite... usually are the same people), anarchists reject it as an illegitimate institution.

Capitalism is also rejected by anarchists, because the capacity for a boss/owner (i.e.- a capitalist) to own the means of production (whether it be a factory, or an oil field), and defend that claim with the guns of the state or a private army, and thus systemically force most people to sell what little they have (i.e.- their time and labor) to get enough wages to get by, and if they are lucky, break into a less-desperate middle class... is also seen as illegitimate. This does not mean that there are not potential markets in anarchism (there are market, communalized, and mixed economic models with anarchism). Being someone's boss, however, simply recreates hierarchical, exploitative social structures, no matter how "free" the employment contract appears on the surface. Anyone who has worked a wage job can testify to this.

So, if your father likes exploitation, forcing most people to work every day of their lives just to have a comfortable living so that a few rich people can have far more than they should while creating nothing of value themselves for society, then yes, anarchy is "evil" or "bad" for your dad. If, however, he thinks that you should have a right to education, health, and a say in everything that affects you, including your workplace, community, and role in society, and that coercion and domination is bad (and that you shouldn't have to put up with an exploitative boss... ever.), then anarchism is going to be the only school of thought that offers this.

Many anarchists are atheists. Many are not. I am an atheist, but not because I am an anarchist. I see anarchism and religion as incompatible, and god as a form of thought tyranny and illegitimate social coercion, and would generally agree with Bakunin, and his thesis in "God and the State". However, some of my nicest and proactive friends who work to relieve poverty in their communities and help others the most genuinely have been Christian anarchists. One of the foremost anarchist pacifist theorists was Leo Tolstoy, a Russian Christian anarchist who saw Jesus' message of "turn the other cheek" as a maxim to live by, and thus was an anarchist because it is the only school of political thought that rejects all forms of coercion and exploitation. Liberation Theology today synthesizes Catholic theology with libertarian socialist (i.e.-anarchist) ideas of non-exploitation and helping end poverty. Buddhism also has a strong anarchist tradition.

Overall it is extremely hard to generalize what anarchism is, by its very nature. Hopefully however, as an anarchist myself, as well as someone working on a PhD in Political Theory, I have been able to give you something of a basic idea that will hopefully let you dispel many of the negative stereotypes that people, such as your father, may have of anarchism. It is far more interesting and socially meaningful than angry teenagers wearing black fatigues and not bathing.

Answer 6

Anarchy isn't evil. It's just the absence of a governmental structure. It's been associated with being anti-god because in the past, despotic rulers derived their popular power from claiming divine right and painted all those people who were against that kind of power evil.

Answer 7

Anti god? It has nothing to do with god. It's just the opinion the the country would be better off if there was no government.

Your dad is a goober.

Answer 8

anarchy occurs in nature, but so does order. humans have created things that aren't naturally occurring that are much, much more evil (in spirit, results, and in creation) than anarchy.

Answer 9

lol. no.
anarchy is anti government. your father is thinking of antichrist. go young man, and bedazzle your father with your newfound knowledge.

Answer 10

Dude, no it is not evil.