tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post111746937518796378..comments2023-10-25T08:46:20.242-05:00Comments on The Distributist Review: Anarchy and TyrannyJohn Médaillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-1171369159947013602007-02-13T06:19:00.000-06:002007-02-13T06:19:00.000-06:00Well the fact of the matter is that Somalia is a b...Well the fact of the matter is that Somalia is a bad example of true anarchism. Remember: political anarchy in fact is not chaos. This is just the ridiculous presumption made by apologists for the State. Somalia is not a great example of political anarchism as it is being run by criminal rogue elements -referred to as " war lords" in the West- who are perpetuating the State an a micro level complete with inter competition among the various competing entities & rouge elements. <BR/><BR/>The absence of the State including the absence of " war lords" would render a truer form of anarchism. Remember: anarchism is the absence of a centralized State as well as the absence of any form of hierarchal control. <BR/><BR/>This does not necessarily lead to chaos as people all throughout history have shown that they can self organize without a State or be saddled with chaos. Anarchism also does not mean disorder as anarchism allows for an organized society but along more equitable lines without coercive force or control. <BR/><BR/>A few examples of anarchistic type societies which have worked without the cliched expected social breakdown -as Statist apologists like to assert- are the San / Bushmen of the Northern Cape & Namibia & the Boers of the Voortrekker era in southern Africa. <BR/><BR/>The Boers have been noted by a number of historians to have been living in a state of Stateless anarchism on the eastern Cape frontier & during the Great Trek before the establishment of formal -though minimalist- republics. They were certainly still able to organize & maintain a degree of order through their commandos. <BR/><BR/>The fact of the matter is that anarchism is the natural & earliest political state (as in state of affairs not the coercive hierarchal monstrosity formal apparatus) of the human race. <BR/><BR/>When all is said & done people tend to prefer to make their own decisions regarding political matters as well as personal choices which is why anarchism is the only real choice as as the other ideologies require some form of State sanctioned coercion.Ron.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17024475980439398317noreply@blogger.com