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A rational case for anarchism

Imagine a country run by these people:

 
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Virus said:
Imagine a country run by these people:

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Edifying. No, wait...

Silly little boys and girls who like shouting rude words in public. What percentage of 'anarchists' are over the age of 25 and/or getting sex?
 
Rule of thumb: If you can call governmental officals "fascist" in public, you don't live in a fascistic state.
 
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KingMerv00 said:
Rule of thumb: If you can call governmental officals "fascist" in public, you don't live in a fascistic state.
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Just so. Several times I've heard the phrase ''We're protesting against the police state this country has become!''

So, this is some new kind of police state that allows people to protest against it?
 
To be fair to the Anarchists, capital-A, as opposed to the adrenalin junkies, desperadoes, and police provocateurs who comprise the violent, lower-case-A anarchist movement, can anyone think of new ideas in history that were derided at the time as having never worked anywhere at any time, but which later came to be accepted as well and good?

I'm thinking of the easy one, the big D. Can anyone think of any others?
 
Because democracy was derided and turned out to work doesn't mean that anarchism works.
 
Virus said:
Because democracy was derided and turned out to work doesn't mean that anarchism works.
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Granted, but it doesn't mean that Anarchism doesn't work, either. Can anyone think of any other examples of novel things that didn't work in the past up until a certain breakthrough point, whereupon it worked at least once?
 
CplFerro said:
To be fair to the Anarchists, capital-A, as opposed to the adrenalin junkies, desperadoes, and police provocateurs who comprise the violent, lower-case-A anarchist movement, can anyone think of new ideas in history that were derided at the time as having never worked anywhere at any time, but which later came to be accepted as well and good?

I'm thinking of the easy one, the big D. Can anyone think of any others?
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This is likely a much oversimplification of peoples views on democracy/republic. Personally true democracy is something that really does not seem to work, which is why it is good the US is not a democracy but a republic. Look at all the problems in california they have with their direct democratic initiative process.

You might well also have real issues with democratic principles if there is too long a travel time between the center of power and its edges.

But I don't think anyone ever claimed democracy fails on the same level as anarchy fails. If so start providing examples.
 
CplFerro said:
Granted, but it doesn't mean that Anarchism doesn't work, either. Can anyone think of any other examples of novel things that didn't work in the past up until a certain breakthrough point, whereupon it worked at least once?
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please substitute political philosophies for people's names in this Sagan quote:

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Robert Park also comes to mind. “Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.”
 
CplFerro said:
Granted, but it doesn't mean that Anarchism doesn't work, either.
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But it does not mean it will work, either. Get that into your head already: derided or not means NOTHING.

Can anyone think of any other examples of novel things that didn't work in the past up until a certain breakthrough point, whereupon it worked at least once?
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How many examples can you think of which were tried, never worked, but are still touted by their supporters as the only rational solution?
 
CplFerro said:
Granted, but it doesn't mean that Anarchism doesn't work, either.
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Anarchism doesn't work because by definition anarchism doesn't have anything to work. It has nothing that allows society to function, and it doesn't even have anything to prevent a government to form.
 
Chaos said:
But it does not mean it will work, either. Get that into your head already: derided or not means NOTHING.


How many examples can you think of which were tried, never worked, but are still touted by their supporters as the only rational solution?
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Don't talk to me like that. Good day, sir.
 
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