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[yabatab]

True anarchist are not against all forms of government. That is a common
misconception.

[Oneironaut]

How are you defining government? Care to tell me how an anarchist "government" would work, and why it deserves to be called a "government"?

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/government

Main Entry: gov·ern·ment
Pronunciation: 'g&-v&r(n)-m&nt, -v&-m&nt; 'g&-b&m-&nt, -v&m-
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
1 : the act or process of governing; specifically : authoritative direction or control
2 obsolete : moral conduct or behavior : DISCRETION
3 a : the office, authority, or function of governing b obsolete : the term during which a governing official holds office
4 : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit : RULE
5 a : the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it b : the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out
6 : the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization: as a : the officials comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency b capitalized : the executive branch of the United States federal government c capitalized : a small group of persons holding simultaneously the principal political executive offices of a nation or other political unit and being responsible for the direction and supervision of public affairs: (1) : such a group in a parliamentary system constituted by the cabinet or by the ministry (2) : ADMINISTRATION 4b
7 : POLITICAL SCIENCE

[yabatab]

Do your research on anarchy.

[Oneironaut]

Umm, I have, and the anarchists seem pretty unanimous on abolishing the state and all forms of political authority. We want to replace government with a non-hierarchical organization of the people as a means of maintaining order. We don't want to govern anybody, since governing people and hence government itself is fundamentally un-anarchistic. How can you have a government without hierarchy? If you have people governing others, that's hierarchy. If there's no hierarchy and nobody is governing anybody else, there's no government!

[yabatab]

We want to replace government with a non-hierarchical organization of the people as a means of maintaining order.

You said it yourself....that in its self would be a form of government.
Not a hierarchy but still a form of government that would maintain
order.

[lagstronaut]

Not a hierarchy but still a form of government that would maintain order.

..so police?

[Oneironaut]

I wouldn't call that a government. It's just people keeping shit in line. Nobody's governing anyone else, since there are absolutely no governors of any kind. Government implies political authority; anarchy implies its negation.

[Oneironaut]

..so police?

No, a non-hierarchical voluntary people's militia, whose sole job would be to defend people from imminent threats, not a police force whose job is to uphold the power of the state and enforce the laws of the elite on the general public. There's a huge difference.

[benagain]

No, a non-hierarchical voluntary people's militia, whose sole job would be to defend people from imminent threats, not a police force whose job is to uphold the power of the state and enforce the laws of the elite on the general public. There's a huge difference.

Like gangs, or the samurai? That's what I'm getting. Sounds like an opressing government to me. But then again, I'm an idiot so what do I know.

[thebeancounter41]

True anarchy is CHAOS.Because TRUE anarchy is to have NO order or law whatsoever except the law of "everybody do what ever the fuck you want to"which includes rape,murder,theft and other assorted mayhem.
You aren't an anarchist,you just want to be the one on top of whatever heap we have at the time.