Listen Jttmab.. This is what you stated:
On an esoteric note. People generally don't want democracy. People want to be left alone to do what they want. Anarchy doesn't do that very well.
If democracy is NOT exactly such a system where people are left alone to do what they want (so long as they don't violate the very same rights of others), then what is it?
It's certainly not an Islamic state.. We saw EXACTLY what an Islamic government achieved via the Taliban, and how the people cast off that repressive culture when given the opportunity.
Nonsense. An extreme form of Democracy would be where every law, expenditure, regulation is taken to the people for a vote.
Some anarchists would definitely disagree with you:
yelah.net
Or this one:
Anarchy isn’t simply lawlessness; it’s a condition where government enforced laws would be redundant and unappreciated, because they’d be seen as the cure that’s worse than the disease, or the bandage that hides a festering infection. People can be self-governing as individuals, and in communities or tribes as well.
strike-the-root.com
antenna.nl
What I hope to demonstrate is that democracy and anarchism are neither identical (under certain conditions) nor antithetical. Anarchism is the most fully developed form of democracy but at the same time moves definitively beyond it –as the title of this article suggests.
inclusivedemocracy.org
What is anarchism?
Anarchism is the movement for social justice through freedom. It is concrete, democratic and egalitarian. It has existed and developed since the seventeenth century, with a philosophy and a defined outlook that have evolved and grown with time and circumstance. Anarchism began as what it remains today: a direct challenge by the underprivileged to their oppression and exploitation. It opposes both the insidious growth of state power and the pernicious ethos of possessive individualism, which, together or separately, ultimately serve only the interests of the few at the expense of the rest.
Anarchism promotes mutual aid, harmony and human solidarity, to achieve a free, classless society - a cooperative commonwealth. Anarchism is both a theory and practice of life. Philosophically, it aims for perfect accord between the individual, society and nature. In an anarchist society, mutually respectful sovereign individuals would be organised in non-coercive relationships within naturally defined communities in which the means of production and distribution are held in common.
katesharpleylibrary.net
Anarchy is a beautiful ideal.. Comletely unrealistic given the treacherous nature of human greed and deceit.. The dictionary definitions of the word are filtered through the reality of the human condition. But it is NOT the true definition of the ideology, no matter how unrealistic.
Democracy means "People Rule".. or Rule by the People implying that a consensus of representatives, or of a majority referendum decide governmental policy for all.
Anarchy, in its purest form, is a state of being where there is no requirement for rulership because the people all work together for the common good with full acknowledge by alll of where their personal rights begin and end as they relate to the rights of others.
It is, as you correctly state, the ultimate form of liberty.. But one must acknowlegde that theoretically speaking such a lack of government rule is a valid form of government in and of itself.. Because we all govern together with mutual respect for one another.
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