by OpLan » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:16 pm
From <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy" target="top">Wikipedia</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <br>Anarchy (Greek: áíáñ÷ßá) is the anarchist society, the stateless society of free people. Anarchism is the name of a political philosophy, or a generic term for a group of more-or-less related political philosophies, derived from the Greek an-archos ("without archons" or "without rulers"). Thus, "anarchism," in its most general semantic meaning, is the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.<br><br>One who practices anarchy does not believe in political or moral authority, but may believe in voluntary leadership.<br><br>The rise of anarchism as a philosophical movement in the late 18th century, with its notion of freedom as being based upon political and economic self-rule. It was a reaction to the rise of the nation-state and large-scale industrial capitalism.<br><br>Although anarchists are unified in the rejection of the state, they differ about economic arrangements and possible rules that would prevail in a stateless society. On this issue anarchists differ widely, ranging from advocates of complete common ownership and distribution according to need, to supporters of private property and free market competition. For example, most forms of anarchism, such as that of anarcho-communism, not only seek rejection of the state, but also other systems which they perceive as authoritarian, which includes capitalism and private property.<br><br>Many individualist anarchists are mutualists - they support capitalism in terms of private ownership of both products and means of production, but reject "usary" (rent, interest, and profit from other's labor.) A more modern branch of individualism called anarcho-capitalism supports non-statist capitalism fully. Thus, both branches support individual sovereignty, free trade, free competition and private property.<br><br>The word "anarchy", as most anarchists use it, does not imply chaos, nihilism, anomie or the total absence of rules, but rather an anti-authoritarian society that is based on voluntary association of free individuals in autonomous communities, operating on principles of mutual aid and self-governance.<br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br>"I have never once given ANYONE permission to rule me, sure my parents ruled me until I was of age to rule myself, since that time I have been under self rule entirely. Others have voted for criminals and seemingly felt they had the right to give permission for others to rule me, where they got that silly idea I do not know, if you do, please inform me"<br><br>Masonic..<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>you</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> are more of an anarchist than the criminals you mislabel.<br><br>As for your store owner..(If I'm not mistaken)..he buys the goods from a warehouse at a discounted price.He then adds on the tax charges and whatever profit he thinks he can get away with.They only come after him if he decides he doesn't want to pass on the tax he has collected <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>from you</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->.<br> <p></p><i></i>