From what I understand anarchy in a political sense is about removing as much government as possible? So regulatory bodies would be removed.
I actually haven't got a very good idea of how it is meant to work. People tell me it is left wing, but left wing is historically attached to the socialist movement that gives government a lot of control, so who the hell even knows...
You should check Marx himself - who held that communism was to be a final stage where the government was abolished. State socialists were actually a derail of the program of dismantling the state, which Marx held to exist purely as an apparatus of class oppression. Lenin himself called his hybrid system (what we now commonly call socialist totalitarianism), "State capitalism" a temporary means on the move towards Marxist socialism/communism (direct democratic governance by workers councils).
Regulatory measures are all well and good under anarchism, as long as those measures have direct democratic controls. The main thing anarchists are opposed to is the effective "rule by decree" that we have in the form of central parliaments (which have fairly nominal democratic controls with little choice) and unelected regulators.
No, no, no.
We had a thread derail about Anarchistic philosophy on one thread for like 20 pages!
...and yet people are still trotting out the same strawmen. Maybe we need an entire thread on anarchist political theory, so we can just link people to it.
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