{"id":1484,"date":"2016-06-15T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2016-06-15T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:15:34","slug":"anarchism-anger-and-anti-statism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2016\/06\/anarchism-anger-and-anti-statism.html","title":{"rendered":"Anarchism, anger and anti-statism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Philosophy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Let us think about anarchism, anger and anti-statism. Most people’s view of anarchism is that it is an angry, impassioned plea for governments to be disbanded or overthrown. It has no plan and has not thought the consequences through.<\/h3>\n

If brought up among the average group of intelligent people at the top of\u00a0any profession, anarchism\u00a0is dismissed\u00a0as nothing more than an overly idealistic political philosophy among youths. Indeed, many people are only interested in anarchism during their youth, and later “realize” the state is necessary once they are paying their taxes etc.<\/p>\n

However, most people don’t realize how many influential and dominant intellectuals in fact favor anarchism.\u00a0The tendency to dismiss anarchists as an angry, passionate lot who have not thought through\u00a0the consequences of their zero state goal is\u00a0an example of the political habit of assuming\u00a0the speaker\u00a0either has\u00a0all the solutions or has\u00a0none. Not for a moment do people realize that in fact no-one has all the solutions to society’s problems, although some theories and philosophies can be of great aid.\u00a0I tend to use the term anti-statism<\/a> rather than anarchism, because many interpretations of anarchism are about all authority being disbanded. That would be an impossibility, since even the people who first thought through such a goal and proposed it were themselves natural authorities in their field of interest. The most credible type of anarchism, the type preached by their best today, is merely criticism of the modern state and corporate hierarchies. There’s no proposition there that all forms of organization and authority are evil,\u00a0just a yearning for more organic and less paradoxical forms of organization and authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us think about anarchism, anger and anti-statism. Most people’s view of anarchism is that it is an angry, impassioned plea for governments to be disbanded or overthrown. It has no plan and has not thought the consequences through. If brought up among the average group of intelligent people at the top of\u00a0any profession, anarchism\u00a0is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499],"tags":[342,1500,25],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-philosophy","tag-anarchism","tag-personal-philosophy","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nAnarchism, anger and anti-statism - L'Ordre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Think about how anarchism, anger and anti-statism interact and whether they are justifiable. 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