Re:Digging for answers: The “strong smell” of fraud from one...
by dredmorbius on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @03:49AM
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Anarchy as used in the lay press, and as used by the anarchist movement, are not the same thing.
The lay meaning is more akin to "chaos" or "disorder".
An-archy comes, literally, from "no ruler" or "no hierarchy". There are numerous definitions but it's best understood as an order arising out of interactions among equals.
That to my mind is its key disadvantage: there are no equals, and in the Libertarian context, there's a vast overt blindness (which I suspect is a covert strategy) toward the power which accrues from wealth.
Noted by Adam Smith himself: “Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes says, is power.” (Wealth of Nations)
Disclosure: I am neither an anarchist nor libertarian.
The lay meaning is more akin to "chaos" or "disorder".
An-archy comes, literally, from "no ruler" or "no hierarchy". There are numerous definitions but it's best understood as an order arising out of interactions among equals.
That to my mind is its key disadvantage: there are no equals, and in the Libertarian context, there's a vast overt blindness (which I suspect is a covert strategy) toward the power which accrues from wealth.
Noted by Adam Smith himself: “Wealth, as Mr. Hobbes says, is power.” (Wealth of Nations)
Disclosure: I am neither an anarchist nor libertarian.