Yes, I am actually an anarchist. And this is a very interesting thing you just said! Anarchism is actually the absence of unjust power, not just the absence of laws and government. Anarchists are also in favor of abolishing capitalism and all other kinds of hierarchies, like transphobia, racism, homophobia, etc. But why do you think most people wouldn’t survive?
What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of yourself? Why do you think we need a government and laws to keep us safe? If nothing was illegal, would you just start doing horrible things? I wouldn’t. Nobody I know would, not unless they were going to do those things anyway. And the people that currently control the government and the laws do horrible things, on an absolutely massive scale, every single day – and nothing ever happens to them, since they control the levers of power. Hierarchies only create the ability for terrible people to do terrible things with no consequences. The entire premise of a government, or a nation-state, or any of the current hierarchical methods of control currently in place is that there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
I highly recommend checking out the book Law and Authority by Peter Kropotkin on this issue.
I find the “I don’t think you’d survive” comment particularly
interesting, because everything I’ve read about anarchism and heard from
anarchists, it tends to be focused very heavily on communities. I feel
like most people hear “anarchy”, and imagine some type of “every man for
himself” situation, which afaik doesn’t really represent the majority
of branches of anarchism.(I just recently read Anarchy
Works, and honestly, the anarchist societies described there sound a lot
more survivable than capitalism for most people)^^
Yup.
“every man for
himself”
is the essense of that other system… capitalism, backed up by extensive state violence put into place to maintain itself (always funny that a supposedly great system would need so much weaponry just to keep on existing) and a lot of us are not surviving it.
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