Would anarchy be worse than what our country has become?

Answer 1

Yes. Oh, and anarchy never gets to last long. A brutal dictator always steps in because people get hungry.

Answer 2

YES!

We have order and good streets and hospitals and schools and clean water and plenty of food and housing. Under anarchy this would all evaporate!

There are not many places on earth better than the USA (if any) and few people in HISTORY who have had it better than today's Americans.

Answer 3

"Liberty is the mother, not daughter, of Order."

It is because of the *state* that we have chaos here now.

Case in point: alcohol prohibition didn't reduce alcohol consumption, but it allowed organized crime to control alcohol distribution. In the same way, drug prohibition hasn't reduced drug consumption, but has allowed organized crime to control drug distribution. It has also put more and more people in prison. The United States has the highest incarceration rate *in the world*.

Case in point: a century of United States interventions in Latin America have created a large population of dispossessed and sometimes displaced people.

Case in point: in the 1980s, the United States government provided arms and training to terrorists in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Afghanistan (the last became Al Qaeda). It claims it has stopped providing arms and training to terrorists in Colombia.

"Anarchy is Order"

Now anarchism doesn't mean chaos, doesn't mean warfare, and above all, doesn't mean *rule* by one person over another person. (Some of the answers seemed to confuse anarchism with archism/statism).

Anarchism, in a nutshell, supports free association, opposes the state, and opposes hierarchy. (At the very least, anarchists oppose involuntary hierarchy; anarchists often try to create egalitarian alternatives to the semi-voluntary hierarchies too).

People depend on each other. People tend to create their own voluntary social order, including free association, reciprocity, mutual aid, and, if necessary, mutual defense. Once people create this order, a state, or any other criminal gang, is in trouble. So the state, to preserve itself, must preempt voluntary social order.

Highleyman, "An introduction to anarchism:"

http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/sp001550.html

"An anarchist FAQ:"

http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html

Anarchism is libertarian socialism, and is built on free association. At times one school uses classical-liberal means for socialist ends (Proudhon argued that markets undermine capitalism and create equality) and at times another school uses socialist means for classical-liberal ends (Kropotkin argued that communism, in the sense of free and equal access to the means of production, allowed more personal freedom than markets could). Either proposal would startle many non-anarchists. Most anarchists recognize that there aren't any perfect answers, and expect people to experiment with different models. Some people will prefer to trade goods in markets, and some people will prefer to share goods in common.

Answer 4

Libertarians love anarchy.

Answer 5

It is almost anarchy. It seems that everyone is against the government.

Answer 6

Much worse, then the people would really see the meaning of losing rights and freedoms.

Answer 7

Anarachy vs. corporatocracy?

I'll take anarchy.

Answer 8

Uh, yeah. Kind of goes without saying doesn't it. Kind of like, "Hey what's better a porsche or a beat up gremlin?"

Answer 9

Look at Somalia,it can be a heck of alot worse than what we currently have.

Answer 10

Perhaps you should join the Anarchist party and form an Anarchist government.