What is Anarchism? (Native Article)

[Dalioranium]

Written by: The Red Factions

This is our first major piece (apart from Comrade Vistadin's poetry) to be included in the Library. I will present it unedited and he wrote it. For all who arent aware, I do not believe english was RF's first language.

[Dalioranium]

The purpose of this essay is to provide a more accurate and meaningful definition of the word anarchism that is often misused even here at The Proletariat Coalition. The apparition of a thread rather insulting to the noble ideals of Anarchism was spotted and this essay will hopefully enlighten the Comrade we all know I am targeting with in this essay.

Anarchy has so far been defined in countless ways by a multitude of different sources, some being more reliable than others, some others being it less. The word itself originates from the Greek language used by the very founders of modern democracy. It is made up by words meaning “absence of” and “authority”. Basically, absence of authority. Today, dictionaries in good standing still define anarchism as the absence of government or authority. These definitions of anarchism are based on the writings of anarchists in the past and present. Any person seeing past the usual stereotypes surrounding the use of the word Anarchism understands that the word represents a liberatory idea associated with what is good and positive. The other sources I mentioned in the beginning of this essay, such as the western corporate press, generally uncultured, ideologically bankrupt and showing no interested in learning what anarchy means, will frequently misuse the word and, breed misunderstanding amongst the common citizen in the capitalist society we are all prisoners off today. Anarchism, is a direct threat upon established authority, and will therefore be misused by power holders over the world. It has been misused in the past, it will be misused in the future but this essay will hopefully bring an end to it’s misuse in our Coalition.

First of all, it should be known that Anarchist ideas evolved and blossomed thanks to Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin when they started to write and speak about this rather new ideology. Especially Bakunin wielded a lot of influence internationally and helped introduce the ideals behind the black flag to millions of people. Peter Kropotkin wrote many books on anarchism, and greatly helped develop popular notions of anarchism and why it served the interests of Mankind as a whole. This writer, Kropotkin, was the first one to provide the first “official” definition of anarchism in Encyclopedia Britannica in the beginning of the previous century. Although his definition was around fifteen pages long, mine will be much more concise mainly because of practical reasons. I seriously doubt any member of TPC would read a fifteen pages long definition right here and now.

It is necessary to tell you, what anarchism is not. Modern society is nearly clueless about the definition of Anarchy. It is not chaos, it is not murder, It is not a return to the wild state of man as some would be inclined to believe. Anarchism is an evolution, not a reactionary force.

Anarchy is the name given to a principle of life and conduct under which the future society functions without government or state as we know it today. It’s about the rejection of the state that has always turned out to be oppressive and will always turn out to be. Peace and Harmony in a stateless society is obtained not by submission to law or morals imposed by a tyrannous ruling class or by forceful obedience to authority designed by the oppressive state controlled by an elite ruling class but by voluntary agreements concluded between various groups in the nation. Wether they be territorial or professional, these are freely constituted in order to facilitate production and consumption, and for the satisfaction of the needs and aspirations of a civilized being without having the intervention of the state that acts only in it’s own interests, ie, the bourgeois.

Therefore, at the core of this theory and practice lies a wish to be free of the conditions, and institutions which are a direct threat to the true progress of any human development. Anarchists especially view the state and their corporate puppetmasters, and the multitude of oppressors which comes from these bourgeois institutions as obviously unnecessary, but more importantly, a threat to human freedom. Most, perhaps all, of society's inequities, violence and conflict have their roots in unjust power relations between rulers and ruled. As Karl Marx himself correctly stated, history has been but a gigantic class war, where Plebeians have been faced against Patricians, Bourgeois vs Proletarians etc…etc… social violence, poverty and oppression are all the results of social relations designed to serve only the interests of the rich, and therefore ruling class along with their authoritarian institutions classified as legitimate by the tyrannous state. Any true anarchist seek to identify these authorities using their tools of oppressions and challenge their right to exist. If these fail to serve the interests of human freedom and aspirations they should be abolished and destroyed, for the sake of Liberty. Anarchy is no other than the natural state of the free human being.