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Anarchism is not the way to go. Those protestors that you see breaking windows, assuming they are not agent provocateurs, are anarchists. When the electricity goes out for days and riots and looting happen, that's a preview of anarchism. People in large groups must have supervision
Anarchism has its merit if you are an unemployed 22 year old leech living off your parents- like most of those Occupy Wall Street protesters- most normal people who actually work and have some dignity would reject such nonsense.
Government is needed to protect citizens life, liberty and property from internal and external agressors. The hard thing is keeping that same government from endangering the life, liberty and property of those citizens.
Anarchy has no merit, it is antithetical to the preservation of social order and the preservation of individual rights. Rights can only exist within the structure of organized society subject to the rule of law. In this, it must be admitted that there can be no society without the law; it is the very fabric of social structure. It is, like the air we breathe, pervasive and essential, affecting every aspect of human relationships and endeavors. Beyond this lies only the uncertainty of uncivilized life where there is no society, where every man is a law unto himself; and life, as Hobbes put it, is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651). Such rights are nothing more than a scrambling possession that would be unlikely to last beyond the first to challenge the claim by force. The law is the only means by which real rights may be secured.
There are many interpretations of "Anarchy", most wrong.
Occupy WS is not anarchy.
Little kids walking around in Syd T-shirts they got from Hot Topic, flipping off thier teachers and old lady's is not anarchy.
Anarchy is that there are 'no rules', but it is because none are needed. Every person has mutual respect for all other people and treats them accordingly, on their own volition. No overbearing authoritarian oversight is needed. Im a big fan af true anarchy, but it could never happen in our violent and "ME ME ME" oriented world
Move to Somalia and experience it for yourself. Then report back on how much better it is.
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Anarchism - does it have any merit?
