Anarchy, like solipsism, is not something you can organize like minded people around.
Solipsism is the position that yours is the only conscious mind and that all others are somehow robotic projections. Anarchy, with it's fundamental ideas of total individual responsibility and no organized government, also refutes, by definition, the idea of an organization. Yet we have a group in Santa Cruz that is actively trying to put that square peg in the proverbial round hole.
In a recent news article about an anarchist info meeting, one member was quoted as saying: "Collectively, we have power to design how our lives look." Collectively, to me, means some organization and governance. You can't have it both ways. A true anarchist isn't going to respect a group vote that he doesn't agree with.
But, even if we could wiggle past these deep inconsistencies, could anything even resembling anarchy actually work in the real world?
Without a government and all that entails, we would have no common money--only barter--, no schools, no roads and no police or military. While no police or military rings nicely with anarchists, think about no one to stop someone from robbing you or some teen from driving drunk at 100 miles per hour. Any country could attack us with impunity.
Like most of us, I kind of like anarchy applied to myself, but I'm not comfortable with it for every questionable character I pass on the street.
when anarchists agree, they can form a community... if an anarchist later disagrees... they can leave said community to another community they agree with... if someone robs you... can't you learn a martial art, carry a gun, or in general improve your self for your own protectoin?
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