Anarchist is ... We are sorting out

"Mama is anarchy, papa is a glass of port" - so in the song of V. Tsoi some young people are reporting about themselves. With port, for example, everything is clear, but what does anarchy have to do with it? Let's try to understand.

Who are the anarchists?

Anarchism (literally - anarchy) is a system of philosophical views, which denies any compulsory management and power of some members of society over others. Anarchy calls for the liquidation of all types of power, regarding them as organs of exploitation and repression. An anarchist is a person who desires complete and absolute freedom.

Humanity is characterized by freedom-loving, and therefore the ideas of anarchism are initially perceived with sympathy. But later this sympathy disappears.

Basic principles of anarchism

The ideology of anarchism is based on remarkable principles, such as equality and brotherhood, complete freedom (including associations) and human mutual assistance. And most importantly - the absence of any power. A real anarchist is a person who sincerely believes in such a construction of a society where one leader or their group can not impose their demands on others. Therefore, he denies not only authoritarianism and totalitarianism, but even representative democracy. Anarchist is someone who stands up for a complete refusal to coerce an individual to take part in any actions against her will (even in the presence of the most noble goals!). It is assumed that a person can participate in any public projects, only realizing his own responsibility. And since a person can do very little alone, associations of people who freely unite with a common goal and have equal rights in its realization are supposed.

To the issue of public administration

But how can you, by denying all power, exercise public administration? An anarchist is one who sees the solution of this problem in collective governance and the development of a grassroots initiative. That is, in the implementation of any public projects, the initiative goes from the bottom up, and not from above, as is customary now (the simplest example is the election of management at enterprises).

Such an approach to the social structure is regarded by many as idealistic. He demands from members of society, built on the principles of anarchism, a special self-organization and the highest level of culture. After all, a person who rejects power from the outside must be able not only to freely build his own life, but also to establish a peaceful, conflict-free coexistence with other people, thirsty, like him, full of unlimited freedom. Need I say that in a modern, not the most perfect society, is it almost impossible? IA Pokrovsky, a well-known Russian jurist of the early 20th century, wrote: "If there is a doctrine that truly implies holy people, it is anarchism; Without this, he inevitably degenerates into an animal. "

Destroy or create?

Well-known anarchists complain that their ideology is often misunderstood in society; Anarchism is credited with a desire not peculiar to him to return the world to wild laws and plunge it into chaos. But let's deal with it.

Anarchism as a theory has existed for hundreds of years and consists of dozens of directions, often contradictory, or even completely opposite. Anarchists can not decide not only in their relations with the authorities and other parties. They can not achieve unity even in their understanding of civilization and technological progress. Therefore, in the world there are almost no examples of successful construction, and then of stable support of any significant projects by anarchists. But examples of destruction (though sometimes useful), carried out by supporters of anarchy, more than enough. So, if we go back to Tsoi's song, anarchy and a glass of port wine are a very real combination, anarchism and a revolver, too. But to imagine a creative anarchist is already somewhat more complicated.