Anarchy: What it is for and against
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Anarchy: What it is for and against
ana [C16: via Medieval Latin from Greek: of every one similarly]
-archy [from Greek -arkhia; see ARCH] n. combining form: governing organization together with people being members: can be government, social club, athletic association, or international establishment.
anarchy n. member of the -archy family, distinguished from other members by decision on the behavior of its own members resting on equal say for every member: whether the decision affects individually or collectively; directly or indirectly.
oligarchy n. member of the -archy family, distinguished from other members by decision on the behavior of its own members resting on a few members (political bureau, and so on) having more say than the rest: whether the decision affects individually or collectively; directly or indirectly.
monarchy n. member of the -archy family, distinguished from other members by decision on the behavior of its own members resting on one member (king, president, and so on) having more say than the rest: whether the decision affects individually or collectively; directly or indirectly.
nonarchy (not in the dictionary) n. member of the -archy family, distinguished from other members by decision on the behavior of its own members resting on no one (draw lots, negligence, void, and so on): whether the decision affects individually or collectively; directly or indirectly.
Members in a family is like goldfish in my aquarium. They all swim in water; they are always hungry; they play and fight with one another; they die without telling me why. Yet they are different. That is why I keep quite a few. An -archy would compete and interact with another in the same domain. Fitness clubs will compete for membership in the same neighborhood, but the degree will be lower the more they are apart. Take London and Paris. The clubs may still compete for the jet-set, but not for the regular office-worker. When the -archy must be exclusive or monopolistic in a given domain, such as a state, the competition would become a fight for dominance. Monarchy in the United Kingdom would not accept turning itself into a republic, whether anarchy, oligarchy, or nonarchy. This does not have to be the case against a neighbor, like France, because that is none of its business. An -archy may be in harmony or in conflict with all other -archies, be they of the same or of the different kind. In the First World War, the English monarchy would ally with republican France against the German monarchy. The interaction of members in the -archy family has to be seen in this respect.
Anarchy, like all other fellow members, shares traits and characters common to the family. -archy, being a governing organization must first of all be authoritative, for the simple reason that it cannot govern without the necessary authority, in which case it would fail to exist as a being. Thus anarchy, like all other members, must become a government or governing council. In this connection, it must be a fallacy to state that anarchy is against government, or against the essential need for government. The next fallacy is about anarchy taking a stand against organizing, since anarchy itself is an organization. Without prior effort to organize, anarchy would not come into being in the first place. Finally, anarchy must be for law, order, peace, and quiet, since it is only under these conditions that anarchy can govern effectively. Thus anarchy cannot be for disruption, chaos, riots, and so on.
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