ANARCHY: WHAT AND WHY?

What is anarchy? Anarchy refers to the conception or notion of a society without the institution of government. The anarchist vision is the envisagement of a society in which individuals exist in harmony through mutual understanding and not forced cooperation. Literally derived from the Greek words ‘an-arkos’ meaning ‘without a ruler’, the ideology of anarchism believes in the necessity of the removal of the government as the only way to form a completely just and egalitarian society.

Anarchy is often misinterpreted as chaos or destruction. Quite contrary to this understanding, it is the attainment of perfect harmony in society. It is also creative rather than destructive in the sense that it empowers people, freeing them from the control of governments and giving them control of their own lives. It recognises that any form of authority of one man over another is harmful to liberty and abusive to shared humanity. People will be happiest when they can take all decisions affecting their own lives.
Only when every individual person governs himself completely will there be no discrimination as all actions will be directed by individual conscience and not by social norms, mores, sanctions and by the effects of various forms of socialisation.
Since all members of an anarchistic society will treasure the virtues of the then existing social condition, they will adhere to certain basic natural norms. Not because a government has imposed them on him; not because of fear of persecution or the imposition of formal laws or informal sanctions, but because he as an INDIVIDUAL in his conscience has recognised them as being such.
Finally the advent of anarchy will lead to the ultimate evolution of human civilisation and intellect as unprecedented levels of positive liberty will lead to unprecedented levels of creativity of human expression in the form of art, science, literature and is likely to culminate in a second renaissance.