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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Who Are the Real Anarchists?

Mises Daily: by Ryan McMaken
Few political ideologies are as misunderstood as anarchism. Confusion is so widespread, in fact, that those ignorant of this intellectual tradition often use the word “anarchism” as a synonym for “chaos.” Some of the confusion may arise from the fact that anarchism is today often solely associated with the anti-private-property anarchists of the nineteenth century, such as the followers of Mikhail Bakunin.
Indeed, this variety of anarchism was so dominant through the first half of the twentieth century that Ludwig von Mises, writing inLiberalism, mockingly asked “[c]an it, then, be assumed, without falling completely into absurdity, that, in spite of all this, every individual in an anarchist society will have greater foresight and will power than a gluttonous dyspeptic?”
Writing in 1927, Mises’s experience with anarchists was with those who sought to tear down every form of human institution, from the market to the family to religious groups. Not surprisingly, Mises was somewhat skeptical that a society scraped bare of all tried and true human institutions would enter a phase of utopia.....To Read More....
My Take – I find this whole article to be strange ..... to say the least, and I think you might agree.  However, I have posted it because this kind of article will provoke some questions and thoughts regarding that which is foundational to a stable organized society.

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