I have been studying up on anarchy, being that on Steemit that is one of the things that makes the platform move, you write positively about anarchy and you are unto something around here. Of course the basic principle behind anarchy as I understand it is that anarchy is absence of government, something which I find hard to digest, but everybody forms his own opinions so as always that is just what I think, I can see no way for a governmentless society.
Anyway the father's of Anarchism were Proudhon and Bakunin, I have read a little about them and the only thing I can see about both is they weren't actually sure of what they wanted anarchy to be. In fact Proudhon at the end chose to call himself a federalist whatever that means.
But anyway what I was driving at is I came on this website, I think it is a libertarian site, and here are some of the items they put in an article, I wonder how true they are?
"Today the terms "anarchist" and "libertarian" have become interchangeable."
"Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State."
"Anarchism can be described first and foremost as a visceral revolt. The anarchist is above all a man in revolt."
"Proudhon rejected all and any "official persons" - philosophers, priests, magistrates, academicians, journalists, parliamentarians, etc. - for whom "the people is always a monster to be fought, muzzled, and chained down; which must be led by trickery like the elephant or the rhinoceros; or cowed by famine; and which is bled by colonization and war.""
(I actually like this one).
"Proudon's permanent state of revolt makes the anarchist sympathetic to nonconformists and outlaws, and leads him to embrace the cause of the convict and the outcast"
Of course the article is extremely long and it is very interesting, I think I have learned a few things from it, the link is the following, should you be interested in reading it.
