Explain Anarchy to me

[MaxwellEdison]

Anarchist here, commenting.

Anarchy, at its root, simply means a lack of government. This does not, however, mean a lack of governance.
Most anarchists are libertarian socialists, meaning they are also opposed to the authority held by company leaders. An anarchist society for these people would entail worker ownership of production, and communities ruled by some sort of collective decision making, often something similar to direct democracy.

The idea of anarchism is to free people, but also to empower them.

EDIT: BTW, chaos has nothing to do with anarchism.

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, for an anarchy that is actually suppose to function, I would say to read V For Vendetta. Alan Moore's big on anarchy as a movement towards an enlightened age where people don't hold power over others or abuse any sort of system.

 

[Wintermoot]

people who support anarchy don,t fully understand it (if you where to 100% practice anarchy you would get a society like the raiders in Fallout)

 

[Canid117]

Ignore the anarchists. They just like to ***** about the status quo.

 

[sheic99]

No rules.

Pure freedom.
Project Mayhem?

Project Mayhem isn't freedom at all. Durden brainwashed a population into becoming his minions. How is that freedom?

I dunno, I just got the impression, through blowing up credit card buildings in the end, resetting everything and everyone to 'zero' was equally a brainwashing attempt as it was to create anarchy.

The book had them destroying museums to destroy the past. It follows the brainwashing ideal closer.

 

[Googooguru]

Anarchy is Your 4 year old Daughters Birthday party with 35 young kids hyped up on sugar bouncing off the walls, playing pony with the Daschund, while several kids scream in terror and run around your swimming pool because clowns are terrifying and evil. Your wife who gave up trying to herd cats two hours ago is passed out drunk under the kitchen table while you soberly try to cling to the last of your sanity as children scream in your ear and tug your pants continually for attention..

when Political Anarchists can contain the undiluted raw anarchy of childrens birthday parties we are in for some serious trouble.. till then Anarchism is about as scary to me as French toast with Rhubarb preserve..

 

[Oilerfan92]

The theory seems to be that people are free and that there's no laws, essentially making it an everyone for themselves world. But somehow it would make things simpler.

But the VAST (seriously. I cant over explain how vast this is) number of people who follow it are just retarded 13-29 year old who want to break things and bee edgy and shocking.

Also. IMO I view anarchy as technically impossible due to our human nature. SOMEBODY will always try to take over and lead. We need it to accomplish anything. Try doing a major task with a group of people with nobody even trying to lead

 

[Keava]

The theory seems to be that people are free and that there's no laws, essentially making it an everyone for themselves world. But somehow it would make things simpler.

But the VAST (seriously. I cant over explain how vast this is) number of people who follow it are just retarded 13-29 year old who want to break things and bee edgy and shocking.

Also. IMO I view anarchy as technically impossible due to our human nature. SOMEBODY will always try to take over and lead. We need it to accomplish anything. Try doing a major task with a group of people with nobody even trying to lead

The supposed VAST majority is pretty much same as with every other ideology. Just like there never was a single country that adapted actual communism (as described by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels), only a malformed totalitarian systems that pretended to be communism, or many people declare themselves as Christians despite never reading or understanding Bible and twisting the very ideas to their own, personal needs.

Yes anarchy on scale of country/world is impossible due to how people are, however it can work in smaller communes, good example of quasi-anarchistic community was Freetown Christiania, in Denmark. Sadly the Danish government had to interfere and wanted to sell parts of it to real estate companies and now the place is closed (by it's residents).