Does Statelessness = Anarchy?

[Baracko Marx]

As per title.

I have been wondering about this. Thanks to anyone who may be able to clear it up for me.

[Sinister Intents]

Statelessness does not equal anarchy, states a relatively recent construction, so people in Europe and Asia lived in stateless societies with that being anywhere near anarchy.

[Црвена]

Not always. Anarchism opposes all forms of unfair and/or unnecessary authority, and the state isn't the only source of this. The existence of wage labour and private property also gives some people - the minority of people - huge amounts of unfair and unnecessary authority over everyone else. If a society had no state, but had wage labour and private property, there would be bosses and proprietors exploiting, oppressing and exercising coercive power over everyone else, therefore it wouldn't be anarchist. Only by removing all forms of coercion and replacing them with a totally non-hierarchical form of social organisation would a society deserve this label.

[Buttscratcher]

I think so, but anarchy isn't necessarily anarchism, it depends on the context in which the word "anarchy" is used.

[Tim Cornelis]

Anarchy means chaos or the state of anarchism. The absence of a state, but without chaos, is not anarchy. The absence of a state and individual property is anarchy.


Not always. Anarchism opposes all forms of unfair and/or unnecessary authority

As do all ideologies by the way. This is a meaningless phrase uttered by Chomskytes.