Anarchy: an essay

I.Anarchy; what is it?

     Anarchy is the system of no government. There is no government, order is to be handled by the community and a community is to handle the necessities of life; food water and shelter. Conversely, on the other end of the spectrum as far as anarchist philosophy goes…every man for himself. Anarchy has many schools of thought and is divided similarly to left and right wing politics. The left is much more extreme anarchy, based on forced removal and oppression of order and government in all forms, while the right is much more structured anarchy…consider each side, right to left respectively, harmony to discord. The schools of thought, from left to right, are arguably as follows.

Primitivism---rebel based anarchy---|---Anarcho-socialism---Anarcho-Communism

     Primitivism is anarchy that pushes for complete, utter and total chaos; deindustrialization and a reverse to the way it was during the early stages of human life. Rebel Based Anarchy is just that, anarchy based on rebellion. Power and government would be entirely oppressed regularly by the people and we would scavenge for the rest of our lives. The kind of thing you would see in a video game, road warrior or the book of Eli. Now we move on to the next "pole".
     Anarcho-communism and Anarcho-socialism are both extremely similar. They push for structure enforced by the population, develop a common system of morals in the human race, in order to give it the capability of living without government. A utopia is the ultimate goal of "right" anarchism.
     One of the two extremes is far more accredited than the other as far as anarchy is concerned-primitivism. Intentional or otherwise, many proclaimed anarchists are screaming about no government and total chaos. Ever since the hippie generation (50's and 60's) raised children, violent tendencies have been on the rise; and in the 80's all that hostility created the outlet of the hard-rock Punk. Moshing and wildly lashing out at one another, a group of punks will jam out and go crazy. Then they go over the top and vandalize cars, all sorts of property, beating people from friend to complete stranger and just all-out wreaking havoc. These people call themselves anarchists, and usually are, but because of this far more…"visible" form of anarchy, it becomes entirely mistaken. Case in point, "The Anarchist Cookbook". Written by an explosives expert in the Vietnam War (on the American side) the cookbook instructs aspiring anarchists and counter-culture youths how to easily make devices like explosives, phone taps, drugs and some very creative inventions…one of which would cause every phone in a specific area code to ring incessantly until the device was removed. That extreme aside, there are fortunately many people who give a good name and civilized feel to anarchy.
     Right oriented anarchists are extremely egalitarian, that is their basis for fighting against and disapproving of government. There would be politics and there would be order, but everyone will be responsible for it. Where Primitivism calls for revolution, rebellion and refusal to comply, harmonic anarchy, for lack of a better term, is very gradual. It attempts to educate people out of the need for government, make a society independent and make a society competent enough to maintain through morality alone; which yes, is a utopian concept. Keep in mind that this is the extreme. Many Anarcho-socialists and right oriented anarchists are aware of the ineffable odds against utopia, but they do, regardless, want to see a morally driven human-race.  
     As a brief reiteration, Anarchy is based on the abolishment of government and people in power. It spans from two poles similarly too left/right wing politics, the left being extreme Anarchy based on chaos, and right being harmonic, structured ungoverned societies. Each anarchic theory is explainable in "laymen's terms" and in "bureaucratic legal doctrine"-y speech, but however it is described, the point to be made is, "there shall be no government".