January 18, 2007
Anarchy Does Equal Chaos!
There are a lot of misguided people... I would even say that anarchy is starting to become rank with hypocrisy.
Let's clarify, shall we?
1. Communism is not fascism, but rather the polar opposite. If you are an anarchist who believes everything a state tells you, you have no right to label yourself as such. Clearly, people have called themselves many things to get into power. A. Hitler claimed he was a "Christian." Does that make him a Christian? Does that make the churches "followers of Christ?" Does that mean any person or group of people calling themselves "communist" is telling the truth?
2. Anarchy is not order. Human interests, when governed arbitrarily, lead to destruction... and chaos. There is no convincing evidence that anarchy can create peace. It only decentralizes war to the individual level and allows for no progress at all, positive or negative.
3. Anarchy is just as guilty of atrocity. (Remember Ted Kaczynski? Tim McVeigh? Oh, wait... Anarchy is order! I remember!)
4. Anarchy = nihilism. Nihilism = the creation of truth and justice by humans who have exploited truth and justice before and will do it again.
5. Humans are social creatures, but consensus cannot be reached without a unifying ideal. Anarchy has no ideal. Anarchy is the absence of ideals. It is a cop-out for addressing the human condition. Anarchy is laissez-faire like capitalism, and does nothing to prevent economic and social exploitation.
6. Communism is not Marxism. Nor is it Trotskyism. Nor is it Stalinism or Maoism. Anarchy is not easy to define, either. What flavor of Anarchy do you prefer? Anarcho-syndicalism (which is socialist anarchy, but I guess that isn't possible if "anarchy is an alternative to socialism")? Anarcho-capitalism (which is capitalist anarchy)? I think the people on that forum have a very skewed concept of what anarchy is. Anarchy is not opposed to exploitation. Anarchy is opposed to structure... to authority of any kind. Anarchists don't answer to anyone. No God exists to a real anarchist. Nor truth. Nor justice. As soon as you introduce those concepts, you are talking about socialism and communism.
7. Communism is not atheistic. Faith in humanity is not opposed to faith in God.
8. Communism is not stateless. However, the communist state does not possess the hierarchical characteristics of modern states. What is the difference, then, between communism and anarchy? Simple. The Internationale. The ideal. Anarchy, as I have said before is absent of ideal. Anarchists cannot claim ownership to something that is not theirs. It is everyone's. Claiming ownership to the Internationale is exploitative like capitalism.
9. Anarchy is not fascism, but it can lead to fascism. People are drawn to something greater. Anarchy will never exist for longer than two minutes because people need a template. People need principle. Anarchy can only be initiated by the collapse of a state or the collapse of hope. People will build a new state because there is nothing that will morally or physically prevent them from doing so... Only many motivations to make them do so.
10. Communism (that is, true communism) was never established by force. It was always established by consciousness and principle. And the result has always been the same: people of property send in troops and militiamen to crush the development of a communist community by force. (For example, Gerard Winstanley and the "true levelers" in 1649 England. And the Apostles in the first century faced persecution on all fronts, possibly due to their communistic characteristics.)
Before any hypocritical anarchist dare open his/her mouth to criticize something that anarchists will never grasp, he/she would do well to think about what comes out. The Internationale is not anarchy. Anarchy is the antithesis of the Internationale. The Internationale is Communism. Destroying authority is not the solution. Changing it is.
Posted by EvanReynolds at January 18, 2007 12:44 AM
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