Posed similar questions about communism in the past. I’m just trying to understand, I ask because I know there is a reasonable contingent of anarchists here. If you have any literature to recommend I’d love to hear about it. My current understanding is, destruction of current system of government (violently or otherwise) followed by abolition of all law. Following this, small communities of like minded individuals form and cooperate to solve food, safety, water and shelter concerns.
Just like all the animals in the wilderness live without government people would do the same thing
Big disagree. That’s the mainstream/normie concept of anarchism, but that’s not what anarchist theory actually suggests anarchism should be, when organising society along anarchist lines. (The idea of “wilderness” suggests you’re thinking of something like anarcho-primitivism. My own home or homestead isn’t a wilderness, for instance, it’s just a very small settlement.)
First thing you have to understand is that anarchism is basically a precursor-idea to communism. They share the intention of giving common people en-masse autonomy over the running of their society. A few implications of this:
A) If implemented, they would both require workers to seize means of production. Unless…
B) Our first difference arises - socialists seek to govern through various means, e.g trade unions and/or the most educated in society, whereas anarchists don’t seek to govern at all since they have dismantled or collectively opted out of the elective framework. Which is a profoundly democratic thing to do.
C) no “imperialism,” or more simply put, war waging. Two ways of looking at this: if anarchism OR Communism was implemented worldwide, there would likely be no nation-state distinctions. Also, if everyone is behaving anarchically, there would be no state and army apparatus to serve under.
You realize the animals in the wilderness kill each other constantly and frequently starve to death when the slightest thing goes wrong, right?