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FREEDOM
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WHAT IS ANARCHISM?
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The word 'anarchy' (Greek an-archos,rule by none) is often used to mean social
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chaos,unconstitutional government , or domination by rival marauding gangs. We
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know of no-one who advocates 'anarchy' in any of these senses. Anarchists
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certainly do not.
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Anarchists adovcate anarchy in the sense of nobody being boss over anybody else.
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Anarchism stems from the conviction that the purpose of society is to increase
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individual opportunities. For a totally isolated individual, the choice would be
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,either to do what is necessary to stay alive, or to die. In a healthy
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sociey,each individual makes use of the others, and freedom of choice is
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increased all round.
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All voluntary co-operation is healthy, in the sense of fulfilling the purpose of
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society. Organisation is healthy,so long as people are doing what they want, and
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not being forced by the organisation to do something they do not wish to do.
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Leadership is healthy,so long as it is leadership in the sense of innovation
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which others freely copy, and not 'leadership" as a euphemism for being the
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boss.
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Socially unhealthy insititutions are those which go against the purpose of
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society, by forcing some people to act against their will. Anarchists oppose
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every kind of coercive institution, including states, armies, slavery the
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wages,system,prisons,gangsters,nuclearbombs,money
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,patriarchy,matriarchy,theocracy and revolutionary governments.
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Of course ,nobody expects a change from a world full of governments to a world
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without government overnight. There must be a transition period , and that
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transition period is now. We need not worry yet about the problems facing a
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coercion-free society. It is obvious that the society we live in is more
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coercive than necessary,so let us make it a little less coercive than it would
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otherwise have been.
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There are those who purport to have the same aims as anarchists,who ask to be
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put in power to speed up the transition They are frauds. You cannnot get rid of
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coercion by means of coercion.
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Anarchism is opposed to bosses and goverments of every kind
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