anarchism

privileges between individuals.
             This opposition to hierarchy is, for anarchists, not limited to just the state or government. It includes all authoritarian economic and social relationships as well as political ones, particularly those associated with capitalist property and wage labor. Anarchy does not mean chaos nor do anarchists seek to create chaos or disorder. Instead, they wish to create a society based upon individual freedom and voluntary co-operation.
             However it could be argued that Anarchism is a socio-economic and political theory, and not an ideology. Theory means you have ideas; an ideology means ideas have you. Anarchism is a body of ideas, but they are flexible, in a constant state of evolution and flux, and open to alterations in light of new data. As society changes and develops, so does anarchism. An ideology, in contrast, is a set of "fixed" ideas, which people believe dogmatically, usually ignoring reality or "changing" it so as to fit with the ideology, which is correct by definition. All such "fixed" ideas are the source of tyranny and contradiction.
             Thus, it has never been possible to talk of anarchism as a philosophic or political system of the same kind as Marxism, And anarchism has never been represented by a political party, because its followers have wished to retain their freedom to react spontaneously to concrete situations and have regarded political parties as sharing the same faults as governments.,
             Anarchists have continued to regard them as fixed and guaranteed political systems which rigidity the state and institutionalize the exercise of power; neither of these effects is acceptable to libertarians, who believe that the organization of community life on a political level should be replaced by its social and economic organization on the basis of free contractual agreement between individuals.
             Although Anarchists are not idealists, and do not think that pe...

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