Anachro-what the hell?

[Pete]

Instead of looking in a dictionary and disturbing my brothers cat that is sitting on me, I feel it convient to ask what does 'Anachro' mean. I've seen it used as in anchro-socialism anchro-anarchy and anchro-capitatlism. Please explain

[Xvall]

Anarcho is just something to be put before a certain economic ideology. (Anarcho-Socialism, Anarcho-Capitalism, Anarcho-Crapitalism, etc.) It generally implies the desire for an eventually stateless society.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

It means the exact same thing as anarchy, I suppose you know what anarchy is.

[Pete]

many thanks:D

[synthesis]

If you've taken the political compass test, the prefix anarcho represents the bottom (the negative Y axis) of the results chart.

If you are on the bottom left, you are an anarcho-communist. (Mikhail Bakunin, for example.) If you are on the bottom right, you are an anarcho-capitalist. (The Libertarian party, for example.)

Just wanted to try to give a better clarification

[Blackberry]

Quote: from DyerMaker on 8:05 am on Dec. 25, 2002
If you've taken the political compass test, the prefix anarcho represents the bottom (the negative Y axis) of the results chart.

If you are on the bottom left, you are an anarcho-communist. (Mikhail Bakunin, for example.) If you are on the bottom right, you are an anarcho-capitalist. (The Libertarian party, for example.)

Just wanted to try to give a better clarification

Read this page on 'anarcho'-capitalism. (http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secFcon.html)

[Pete]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.77

So that means I am an anachro-communist?

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Theres a bit more involved, like how you plan to get there, how the system will work once you're there, such. Not every libertarian Communist is an anarchist.

[Umoja]

All Communist (And Socialist) seek Anarchy as the last stage of human development, even though I think it's foolish considering we are never going to get Utopia.

[Xvall]

Your compass tells you where you stand. Friend. Don't let a fucking compass decide your political ideology. Choose where you stand yourself. You don't need some program to tell you that. All the compass is saying is that you are more libertarian; both economically and politically. I can assume from it, that you are not a capitalist, or authortarian. Decide where you stand for yourself.

[Pete]

I prefer not to fall in to a prescribed catergory. I was using my score to see if that is the catergory of a certain thing. Catergories are a stereotype and nobody fits a steroetype perfectly.

[El Brujo]

Anarchism couldn't possibly work in todays society. It's a romantic movement that assumes people are generally good and won't take advantage of each other. If big businesses take advantage of workers today where there is government authority (granted its a government authority that favours the crooked big businesses), imagine how it would be in a lawless society. It would end up being lassiez-faire in its purest form because the rich and the mobs would control everything and be able to do whatever they want without a chance of getting into shit with the authority.

[Blackberry]

Quote: from El Brujo on 2:12 am on Dec. 27, 2002
Anarchism couldn't possibly work in todays society. It's a romantic movement that assumes people are generally good and won't take advantage of each other. If big businesses take advantage of workers today where there is government authority (granted its a government authority that favours the crooked big businesses), imagine how it would be in a lawless society. It would end up being lassiez-faire in its purest form because the rich and the mobs would control everything and be able to do whatever they want without a chance of getting into shit with the authority.

If anarchism doesn't work, so doesn't communism, and so doesn't socialism. And if anarchy doesn't work, then there goes Marx's theory out of the window.

So let's just stick with capitalism, shall we?

(Edited by Neutral Nation at 9:54 am on Dec. 27, 2002)

[Sirion]

Where can I find this compass?

[Pete]

compass (http://www.politicalcompass.org)

[BOZG]

All Communist (And Socialist) seek Anarchy as the last stage of human development, even though I think it's foolish considering we are never going to get Utopia

Do anarchists believe in a perfect society? No! So get it into your head that anarchists do not believe in utopias.

[El Brujo]

Quote: from Neutral Nation on 5:52 pm on Dec. 27, 2002

Quote: from El Brujo on 2:12 am on Dec. 27, 2002
Anarchism couldn't possibly work in todays society. It's a romantic movement that assumes people are generally good and won't take advantage of each other. If big businesses take advantage of workers today where there is government authority (granted its a government authority that favours the crooked big businesses), imagine how it would be in a lawless society. It would end up being lassiez-faire in its purest form because the rich and the mobs would control everything and be able to do whatever they want without a chance of getting into shit with the authority.

If anarchism doesn't work, so doesn't communism, and so doesn't socialism. And if anarchy doesn't work, then there goes Marx's theory out of the window.

So let's just stick with capitalism, shall we?

(Edited by Neutral Nation at 9:54 am on Dec. 27, 2002)


Nope. A proper marxist revolution would supress the right and maintain prosperity for the proletariat. As long as there is opposition, anarchism can't work because the right will forcefully take over. Unless there are many years (possibly centuries) of proletarian dictatorship in the whole world and the masses are thoroughly converted to the marxist ideal, anarchism will undoubtedly go bad (and maybe even then it wouldn't work because the people's greedy instincts might get the best of them. An anarchistic utopia can only work if 100% of the world population comply with it without force, so if one person becomes greedy, it will have a "domino effect").