We Wanna Be Anarchy...

I want to make the case for Anarchy. I do this to gain a deeper understanding of anarchist principles, the history of anarchy and collectivization, and to, hopefully, disseminate a similar understanding to readers.

First of all, I want to rid from the readership any misconceived notions about the nature of anarchy and anarchism. The word anarchy is rooted in the Greek words an meaning "without" and archon or arkhos meaning "authority." Therefore the anarchy is literally "without governance" or (for out philosophical purposes) "without government." This is not to say, as many would have the conventional wisdom to be, that it is chaos. Contrarily, anarchy can, is, and has been, a very sophisticated and complex social phenomenon.

The anarchist philosophy takes the literally meaning several steps further with the postulation that there should be no governing authority, that all external governing authorities are inherently illigitimate (a concept I'll discuss later), and that authority should be in the hands of the individual interdependent to the collective. For this reason anarchy is not a socialist or communist movement. Though it may have some of the qualities of socialism and communism but is missing and critical of one key factor, which is the submission to a centralized authority.

Without an organized or centralized system of government, anarchy is inherently the only and truest form of democracy where individuals must act necessarily in a cooperative and collective manner.

In the case for anarchy I will critically analyze known systems of governance, which I believe can be easily categorized under three labels: Monarchy, Oligarchy, and Anarchy.

My thesis is that within the framework of modern industrial and post-industrial societies, the notion that even limited forms of governance are acceptible as a "necessary evil" is heavily biased in conventional wisdom and violates the universal ethic that liberty is the pre-existing condition of humankind.

I will also argue that all forms of governance, past and present, have failed to protect humankind's pre-existing condition and have necessarily devolved into cruel despotism and authoritarianism. With this failure of governmental institutions, the time has come to throw off unnessecary and archaic shackles to human existence, and with the advent of new technologies it will be possible to exist effectively outside the bonds of centralized authority. I will also show that, far from a necessary transition, it is an inevitable social evolution.

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