Anarcho-Bicyclist Conference Manchester April 2011

My last post was a bit aggressive. Quitting smoking I a bitch

Anarchism is a lot like communism and socialism in that, to many people it sounds like a great idea but just can't possibly work. An anarchist system of any kind couldn't work because eventually someone would make a grab for power. Groups would form and fight and you would end up with the kind feudalism that was seen in the past. Eventually one group would win and you're back to square one.

Can you give me an example of how you think this might play out, I am not so sure you have highlighted an insurmountable problem here.

Can you outline who these people might be, what power they would be trying to grab, how they would grab that power and so on?

If the fighting could be avoided, the only way would be to have an authority to keep the peace and then, too, you are back to square one.

There are numerous other ways to keep the peace apart from coercion/authority.

I'm certainly not advocating voting Tories or any other parties but until a system is found that takes advantage of human nature better then capitalism all the other options are either ridiculous or causes of massive death tolls

I'd say a version of anarchism might be an answer, quite what form it would take I couldn't say (but I'd think certainly more laissez faire capitalism/voluntarism than anarco-communism).

I am not quite sure what we mean by capitalism in this context ("...system is found that takes advantage of human nature better then capitalism") as capitalism as practiced tends to be anything but capitalism, it's statism steering a horribly distorted version of a free market.