Anarchism/Minarchism?
So, after much thought and a little reading. I’ve discovered I’d greatly consider myself either an anarchist or even a minarchist. I’m for either no government, or even very small local grassroots government.
I like to define my particular idea of anarchism as something like a decentralized direct democracy. No laws, but instead ethical rules, which would be enforced by the community.
As for the economic side, I seem to like the ideas behind mutualism, which if I understand is all about giving credit to the workers, and producers of products and good.
I’m still young in my venture into anarchism and minarchism, so let me know if I seem to be on the right track.
@toms1266:
Actually Somalia has a government, just a very terrible government that is constantly having trouble with warlords.
From an early article by the WSA:
Workers’ Self-Defense
We have no interest in echoing the hypocrisy of the employing class when they denounce the "terrorism" of small armed groups or guerrilla armies. From Poland to El Salvador, the State’s "forces of order" are the main instrument for striking terror into the hearts of the people. Yet, we do not agree with a strategy for social change based on armed actions by political minorities. Such a strategy substitutes the armed force of a political "vanguard" for working class solidarity and invites entrapment by provocateurs.
The bosses will not give up their power and wealth voluntarily. A period when the working class is beginning to pose a fundamental challenge to boss rule is likely to see violent clashes. Although we would want violence to be minimized, we recognize the use of armed force as legitimate in defending the movement for social change.
Since the workers’ movement to reorganize society on the basis of self management cannot succeed without the breakup of the State and its armed machine, it is important to spread class-consciousness within the ranks of the armed forces and to link their concerns with those of workers in civilian life.
But the defense of the revolution must be the responsibility of a workers militia, organized and controlled by the workers’ mass organizations, not an army or guerrilla force controlled by a minority, such as a political party. If working people are to have control over industry and society, they must also have direct, democratic control over the defense of their revolution.
Towards a Self-managed Society
Workers in every nation repeatedly pose their own desires and demands in opposition to the programs of private capital, corporate and state bureaucrats and political party hacks. Workers create, sometimes with great clarity of vision, movements and new forms of organization which pose demands that no State can fulfill, inherent in which is a desire for freedom and a vision of what a new society could be.
We favor the development of a workers movement based on direct democracy, not just because it will be more effective in the present-day fight against the employing class, but also because it foreshadows – and lays the basis for – a society of freedom and equality, without authoritarianism or exploitation.
Self-emancipation means that the working class, through its own united action, must seize and manage the entire system of production, communication and distribution. Tenants must take over the management of the buildings where they live. Dangerous technology must be redesigned or dismantled. The time that people must spend in work can be greatly reduced by eliminating the unnecessary work created by the current system, and sharing the necessary work among all those who can contribute.
The most basic organ of decision making in a self-managed society should be the face-to-face democracy of assemblies of people in workplaces and neighborhoods.
Economic reorganization on the basis of self-management can be realized on an international scale through the same kind of decision-making bodies as would exist on a regional or national basis. The alternative to a world of warring nation-states is a world human community of self managed regions united on the basis of common interests and mutual respect.