What is anarchism?

Submitted by Jabberman on 11 March, 2008 - 22:51.

please don't tell me what anarchism is NOT (ie no rulers, abolition of the state/capitalism)

this is my definition-
Anarchism: the horizontal organization of society

12 March, 2008 - 11:03

Workers control of our industries, our communities and our lives. But really to do it justice you can't exclude what it is positively opposed to.

12 March, 2008 - 11:10

Some sort of cooked beef.

12 March, 2008 - 11:56
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What is anarchism?

1.
Nothing.

2.
Various ideologies that propose a magical “system” as the source of its advocates’ problems.

12 March, 2008 - 12:45

Jeez, even mine was better than that.

12 March, 2008 - 12:49

Yes, yes it was.

12 March, 2008 - 16:41

If everything is nothing but a social construct, anarchism is therefore a social construct of extreme freedom for the individual although being a social construct it is manipulated by the ruling class as an ideology for the working class to keep them passive or at least gainfully engaged.

12 March, 2008 - 19:39

A society based on horizontalist politics and co-operative economics. A society of Free Association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

12 March, 2008 - 19:51

Anarchy is basically like killing one parent and then having sex with the other, only in politics.

12 March, 2008 - 21:36

As much as I hate to admit it, I like Jack's definition best: "Like Russia, only more mental." cool

13 March, 2008 - 00:52

A perspective on, and a practice in, class struggle.

13 March, 2008 - 09:00

A historically valuable strand of the workers movement and one of the libertarian branches of communism.

13 March, 2008 - 09:36

Yeah, I'm clearly the winner here. cool

14 March, 2008 - 09:51

I think anarchism is the point reached by humans where class struggle is ended. A self-managed society.

14 March, 2008 - 10:02

Yeah but where's the beef?

17 March, 2008 - 19:27
Refused wrote:
Yeah but where's the beef?

In the cows.

17 March, 2008 - 20:03

That is profound, man. *nods approvingly*

18 March, 2008 - 13:21

smashing property, and a perspective on how to get to smash property.