Anarchy is allot like communism in as much as they are both words used to describe a political theory that can’t be realized. Marxist communism’s final state is where everyone is working together in perfect harmony and the government just fades away because it’s no longer needed. Anarchy is also theoretical state where there is no government. Both can’t happen. Our social nature and condition preclude them.
Absence of government creates government upon first contact between two people even if it’s just the most basic Strong Rule The Weak system. Periods of anarchy, like the middle of a riot, are extremely short, and when they’re widespread they have never, in all of human history, ended in anything but authoritarianism/totalitarianism.
Anarchy and Communism (not the in-practice communism, but the Marxist theory) have the same utterly unattainable goal of all people harmoniously living together without any government. Communism purports that through a progression of totalitarian socialism it can remake man into a creature that doesn’t need government. Anarchy just pretends we are already that other creature, but that lasts about a millisecond before the strong decide to tell the weak what to do.
Anarcho-capitalism Is a utopian extension of this “we’ll all interact harmoniously” fantasy, but despite its connection to pure communism vis a vis no government, usually those espousing it do not come from the hard left of communism, but rather from the extreme of libertarianism where they take liberty a step further and think no government at all will secure the most liberty. It’s utopian and unworkable.
This is the actual truth of the matter:
”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
Republican Constitutional Democracy is the most successful form of government ever, and all the rest are flawed and fucked in one respect or another. If we restored the constitutional checks on federal power that have been removed by progressives (eliminate the 16th and 17th amendments) we would be fine, and Washington DC would be put back in its box.
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