a little random
… only cut and paste from a 100 year out of date screed that was used to motivate some pseudo intellectual idiot who could not make it in the real world.
The Russians had Communism for about 80 years which implementation was based squarely on Bulganin [The Great Anarchist], Stalin [more of the same], Lenin [his great vision was actually happening], etc, in which the “Whole of Production” was to come under State Control, i.e., NO PRIVATE PROPERTY, just the benevalence of said State in which anyone and everyone could just take from the Great State Controlled Pile what he/she needed. Surprise! Surprise! Seems the State suddenly did not work very well for an awful lot of people and some MILLIONS OF THE CITIZENS starved to death while the Newly Ordained Leaders got first crack at all the goodies.
Wot the hell happened to this Workers Paradise? What do you think? Sounds a lot like Capitalism in its worst form, I’m thinking. Then, my thought in progress goes something like this,
when Senarchus gets his overthrow of Society what does he think is going to happen? Each individual in the new Society will do what? Don’t anyone be silly and think that individually we/he will come into our Great Native Hunter-gatherer mode and produce any and all we/he/she needs to survive. It would take someone like me about 24 hours to start getting some kind of order in such a place; order that people would accept and follow “for their own good”. This is because people are NOT INDIVIDUALIST’s, they are instead a Social gathering of individuals, each having strengths and weaknesses of his own. No one can or does have it all; even the most primative culture ever known has its own form of social order and a well developed sense of what is “right and proper”.
Strangely enough, an Anarchist would do well initially
in such a setting but only because he/she/it would without doubt try to get some grouping to go along with what his new situation called for, and note carefully, that as soon as that occurred the Anarchy State of Being would immediately be over; A sub-grouping formed from individuals would have just come into being and a New Society would begin to form! Individuals to the rear, we have things to get done and all of us will be needed to do it! Either lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!
In conclusion, if there ever was a start, Anarchy is really a contradiction in terms, it is unworkable because it is contradictory to all knowledge of human existance. Furthermore, it is not possible to form a Society without someone/everyone giving up some of his personal autonomy and joining with others for the betterment of the group; and, a Society will be formed no matter what else a group of individuals will find to do. Why so? Because human beings, from all experience, are just built that way.