Anarchy

“There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.”
~ Albert Camus

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Sometimes a dictionary helps.
Anarchy and Freedom are NOT synonyms.

Definitions (anarchy)

▸ noun: (uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.

▸ noun: (uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.

▸ noun: (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.

▸ noun: Confusion in general; disorder.

Similar: lawlessness, unrule, anocracy, authorlessness, governmentlessness, autarchy, unlaw, rulelessness, leaderlessness, nonorganization, more…

Currently, the corporate-nationalist war parties in America are offering us two choices unending wars of aggression with Trump or unending wars of aggression with Harris. I turned 73 in September. America has been at war for my entire life. Frankly, war is not working and submission to corporate nationalist authority is what led to the Fourth Reich. Lest we forget. Having said this, here is some commentary on Anarchy. This commentary is less simplistic and more cogent than the John “Freeman” diatribe.

Anarchy is a word and only a collection of letters.

Politics, Law and the Triumph of Chaos
~Louis Rene Beres

Louis René Beres, Emeritus Professor of International Law at Purdue, analyses the intersection of politics and law with chaos and war from a jurisprudential lens…

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world….”
-William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

“Plus, ca’ change. “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” In world politics, anarchy is an old and continuing story. Chaos is not.

But what are the precise differences?

And why do they matter?

In part, at least, a helpfully correct answer must be law-focused or jurisprudential. Under modern international law, system wide anarchy was formally instituted and acknowledged at the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Back at the end of the Thirty Years’ War (the last major religious war sparked by the Reformation), a decentralized and sovereignty-centered system of world politics was “officially” codified. In consequence, a global threat-system of war and deterrence became the dominant and fixed template of nation-state foreign policies. Concurrently, a “balance-of-power” supplied clarifying “rules of the game” for all “players.” These were more-or-less conspicuous contestants in the bewildering game of nations.

Essentially, this “balance” system was a simplifying fiction; intangible, non-measurable and incrementally unmanageable. It offered and still continues to offer intellectually-unambitious statesmen and politicians a convenient slight-of-hand metaphor. Correspondingly, this structure provides an always-ready pretext for every manner of manipulative foreign policy intervention. Over time, such behavior has triggered repeated systemic breakdowns and fostered a seemingly permanent condition of global imbalance.

The ironies are altogether evident.

Still, jurisprudence must continuously be emphasized and re-interpreted, More precisely, under international treaty law, language is always of signal importance. Terms of the Westphalian Treaty call, inter alia, for “a just equilibrium of power.” Significantly, war avoidance is never even mentioned in the defining document. In world law, aggressive war was not criminalized until the Pact of Paris (aka Kellogg-Briand Pact) of 1928.

Another staggering irony.”

…

“Understood in the context of classical political philosophy, world system chaos would resemble the “state of nature” described in the seventeenth-century by Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, a condition wherein the life of every person would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” We already stand at the sobering brink of this chaotic condition. Accordingly, it won’t help us to reassuringly maintain that the species “successfully” endured structural anarchy for hundreds of years. Such “success,” after all, could be argued only in the sense that Planet Earth has managed not to disappear altogether.

This is hardly the sort of standard scholars ought ever apply to any jurisprudence-based system of world law and world order.”

Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971) and is the author of many books and articles dealing with terrorism and international law. Emeritus Professor of International Law at Purdue, Dr. Beres was born in Zürich, Switzerland, on August 31, 1945.

Citation: Louis René Beres, Politics, Law and the Triumph of Chaos, JURIST – Academic Commentary, June 9, 2021, https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2021/06/louis-rené-beres-politics-law-chaos/.

“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).”
~J. R. R. Tolkien

“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.”
~Emma Goldman

“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.”
~Albert Einstein

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