I don't know much about anarchy and I still get confused over right wing and left wing politics, I forget which is which. I still ask dumb questions like which end does socialism fit on, where does communism fit. If stalin was running for office today would he be labor(democrat) or liberal(republican).
I think the problem with anarchists (aside from the sociopaths) is that they're not really anti governement, they are against what the government has become.
I tend to oversimplify things. If you put 5 anarchists on a island and they need to have a signal fire, food and shelter. they'll cope (assuming there is food and stuff). Put another 5 and they'll be ok but it will get a bit messy, someone will need to decide where they all go to the toilet so there aren't faeces everywhere. Put another 20 on there and they wont be organised enough to all take turns tending the fire and organising the toilet and food so they'll have to nominate someone to watch the fire and the rest will make sure that person gets enough food, so they'll take a portion of their food and give it to that person, kinda like a tax. Same with the toilets and so on. Kinda sounds like they'll have a group of people governing the management of the utilities on the island. They'd be happy with that because they feel they are running it.
Therein lies the problem, people today feel so disjointed from the government and the government has taken on roles that it should never have taken on. The government is there to run the country for the people, not to run the people for the country.
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