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Anarchism as a political philosophy does not "want a society with no laws or rules". It wants a society where power (social, political, economic, etc) is not d
by thecrash 8y ago
Anarchism as a political philosophy does not "want a society with no laws or rules".
It wants a society where power (social, political, economic, etc) is not distributed based on a hierarchy.
Some misinterpret this as meaning that anarchists oppose the structuring of power in general (a.k.a. chaos), but in fact power can be organized through all kinds of non-hierarchical forms.
Anarchism as a broad philosophy is not prescriptive as to how power /should/ be organized, only how it should not. There are many complementary and competing ideas about how a society or group can best structure itself to minimize hierarchical power, and anarchists argue about these a lot.
They also actively experiment with them, and often the experiments fail. But sometimes they succeed, and those discoveries help all of us expand our possible modes of social organization. So basically I think even if you don't subscribe to anarchist philosophy, you should not be so dismissive of it.