Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Anarchism and Anti-Statism

By implication, what Anarchists oppose can be called 'Archism', and since they tend to advocate self-determinism, Archism can be broadly defined as 'Rule in which Ruler and Ruled are not identical'.  But, in the salient moments of their history, the kind of Rule that they specifically oppose is that in which the Ruler is anonymous and centralized, usually termed the 'State' or the 'Government'.  In other words, their target might be more the Soviet bureaucracy than Stalin.  No doubt they also oppose tyrants, but they are peripheral factors in the doctrine.  So, more accurate than 'Anarchism' is 'Anti-Statism'.

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