Humans are incapable of Anarchy, do you agree or disagree?

Question

After watching a video on World War 1 and the atrocities of the Soviet Partisans and German troops, it makes me think that most humans are incapable of Anarchy because they have no ability of morality.

Answer 1

um..
hitler has done it right>
and other ppl/ like stalin, and all those. watch world war 2 dude..

Answer 2

Anarchy doesn't rely on morality -it relies on a lack of power distribution. This is because Anarchy itself is merely a lack of law in society.

Prolonged Anarchy relies on self-restraint and discipline within the people not to take power.

However, this will never work because it is natural for people to try and dominate one another -it's a primal habit. Think of the animal kingdom where A lion leads the Pride and a Wolf the pack.

As was stated by another answerer, Anarchy will lose itself moments into having been created -because someone with ambition will seek to control things. Chaos is a temporary thing.

Answer 3

Humans are complete incapable of true anarchy because it's our nature to want organization and order. Everything about the world has some sort of order to it. As soon as you upset one order, another one forms almost immediately. Humans may be capable of indescribable atrocities but we cannot live without some sort of set rules. It goes along with the fact that humans cannot have true freedom because it asks too much of us. There always has to be someone there to keep us in line.

Answer 4

Then how do you explain the amount of anarchy in the different parts of the world now a days? Of course, in groups, there are sub-groups etc. and if you meant a true anarchy where no man follows another, yes, humans are like many other animals and do follow hierarchial patterns.

Answer 5

IMO there will never be complete anarchy because not everyone can adhere to that. Even without a government, a sect would rise up and seize power, thus stopping true anarchy.

Answer 6

It's impossible to have anarchy. the second you take away government, people create groups and organizations, because they feel better in organized 'families'. There can never be a true anarchy just because of human nature.

Answer 7

Anarchism doesn't mean the absence of leadership or organization. Bakunin wrote that:

"I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole. Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give-such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination."

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bakunin/godandstate/godandstate_ch1.html

Answer 8

Sure, I think that the situation is indeed stupendous for anarchists and such of theirs. Indeed the state of anarchy is today not suited to starve off the restrains of other systems of society. That said, someday the nature of the warp will be such that it is not instilled but sieged, and then it will like all stupid solutions, dust.

Answer 9

An anarchist society could only work if it consisted of anarchists.
Anarchists have too much faith in basic human nature.
We need some degree of authority above us to establish order. Now to what extent varies from individual to individual.

Answer 10

1- Morality is NOT an ability
2- Anarchy is Utopian- would be nice but...