someone help understand Anarchy. How does it work as a government? Is it just libertarianism?

[TreasonousBastard]

8. It doesn't, and it isn't...

It goes back to the Greeks and kind of stuck around through all of our experiments with government. It basically says that all forms of government are useless. Dangerous, even. More extreme than libertarians would ever want-- no realistic provision for interstate highways, maritime law, criminal law, military defense...

It was big in the 18th Century when the Enlightenment allowed people to question the natural order of things. It popped up again big time in the early 20th when the royals fell, capitalism was failing and socialism/communism lost their luster as alternatives.

I really don't know if it ever had any practical value and was any more than some babbling theory. Humans seem to require some order, and that order ends up as a government. To claim all government is unnecessary would seem to say that anarchy itself, whatever actual form it takes, is also unnecessary.

Now, as far as unions, go, I can't see why it would, since union busting is partly a government function and people are free to form their own associations. However, if there is no government, there wouldn't be any overarching power to stop the bosses from union busting.

What we call anarchy these days, like maybe Somalia, is nothing like what the political theorists thought it should be. But it is most likely what their version would end up as.