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Anarchy is the opposite of collectivism.

But anti-collectivism is not extreme-anarchism.

  • Collectivism: the state is too powerful: too much taxes, too much involvement in affairs it should keep away.
    • Left wing collectivism is communism
    • Right wing collectivistic corporatism is fascism.

Both concentrate power in the hands of a few, although differently: through authority, and money power.

Surprising or not, anarchy is not suitable to keep a power balance between the elite and the masses. Wealth and power is getting concentrated continuously. If wealth is outlawed, than only power: the final result is the same. Wealth and power cannot be separated for long anyway: Either wealth will purchase power, or power will acquire wealth.

To prevent total concentration of power, to maintain balance, certain rules are needed: eg. property tax (that involves land, shares, real-estate, and perhaps other wealth).

Anti-collectivism is closer to anarchy, than to collectivism, but it suggests some law-enforcement, and laws designed for the people, not against the people (as today).


Brainless anarchy vs. smart anarchy

Spartacus Anarchus writes on We will run the show: "We don’t need a money system in a class society run by capital and the state, because we see what it does to us and to the rest of humanity, we experience daily the ferocious effects of a system that is based on money."

Spartacus keeps ranting, definitely without intentions to discuss and communicate: he just deleted comments without making any point or correction. There is some truth in his words. Namely, the current system has severe flaws, he lists many.

Most importantly, while money is a wonderful tool that can (and should) contribute to convenience, fair reward of work, justice, sustainable ecology, presently the monetary_system worldwide is based on fraud: namely money is created by private banks (as loans). Change is needed for sure. However, throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a bad idea. More thinking and discussion is needed than "Spartacus Anarchus" seems to be willing to invest: just bashing everything is more likely to bring more suffering.

Be aware that in anarchy, the exact same class would rule, they would just be allowed more cruel weapons. Damage to the environment and society would be extreme. Noone needs a Mad-Max world or WW-III.

The solution is clearly to move towards anarchy (individualism). Drastic reduce and complete restructuring of taxes is needed.

  • The first task, which is of primary importance on this way is to fix the fraudulent monetary_system
  • Simultaneous Policy for Public Awareness awareness is needed
  • MoneyTaxPresention suggests that is is indeed possible to design (not even complex) a tax system, that (after we eliminate the monetary fraud) can balance the naturally occuring market's transfer of wealth
  • crypto-anarchism (crypto-anarchy is rather a tool) is perfectly in line with anti-collectivism and anarchy