Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "อนาธิปไตย" in Thai language version.
Anarchism can be defined in terms of a rejection of hierarchies, such as capitalism, racism or sexism, a social view of freedom in which access to material resources and liberty of others as prerequisites to personal freedom... .
Anarchism is the view that a society without the state, or government, is both possible and desirable.
An example of a situation which features aspects of anarchy rather than civil war is the case of Albania after the outbreak of chaos in 1997.
the absence of any authority superior to nation-states and capable of arbitrating their disputes and enforcing international law.
One common misconception, which has been rehearsed repeatedly by the few Anglo-American philosophers who have bothered to broach the topic ... is that anarchism can be defined solely in terms of opposition to states and governments(p. 507).
[M]any, questionably, regard anti-statism as the irremovable, universal principle at the core of anarchism. ... The fact that [anarchists and anarcho-capitalists] share a core concept of 'anti-statism', which is often advanced as ... a commonality between them ..., is insufficient to produce a shared identity ... because [they interpret] the concept of state-rejection ... differently despite the initial similarity in nomenclature(pp. 386–388).
If one man be sole landlord of a territory ... he is grand seignior; ... If the few or a nobility, or a nobility with the clergy, be landlords ... the empire is mixed monarchy ... . And if the whole people be landlords ... the empire (without the interposition of force) is a commonwealth. If force be interposed in any of these three cases, it must either frame the government to the foundation, or the foundation to the government; ... or if in the power of the people, anarchy: Each of which confusions, the balance standing otherwise, is but of short continuance, ...
The IAF–IFA fights for : the abolition of all forms of authority whether economical, political, social, religious, cultural or sexual.
anarchists are opposed to irrational (e.g., illegitimate) authority, in other words, hierarchy – hierarchy being the institutionalisation of authority within a society.
But if we define anarchy as places without governments, and we define governments as the agencies with a legal right to impose violence on their subjects, then whatever else occurred in Haiti, Sudan, and Somalia, it wasn't anarchy. For there were well-organized gangs (e.g., governments) in each of these places, demanding tribute, and fighting others who made similar impositions. Absence of government means absence of government, whether well established ones, or fly-by-nights.
In a society developed on these lines, the voluntary associations which already now begin to cover all the fields of human activity would take a still greater extension so as to substitute themselves for the state in all its functions.
That is why Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organisation and preaches free agreement – at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist.
the absence of any authority superior to nation-states and capable of arbitrating their disputes and enforcing international law.
In a society developed on these lines, the voluntary associations which already now begin to cover all the fields of human activity would take a still greater extension so as to substitute themselves for the state in all its functions.
That is why Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organisation and preaches free agreement – at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist.
anarchists are opposed to irrational (e.g., illegitimate) authority, in other words, hierarchy – hierarchy being the institutionalisation of authority within a society.
The IAF–IFA fights for : the abolition of all forms of authority whether economical, political, social, religious, cultural or sexual.
If one man be sole landlord of a territory ... he is grand seignior; ... If the few or a nobility, or a nobility with the clergy, be landlords ... the empire is mixed monarchy ... . And if the whole people be landlords ... the empire (without the interposition of force) is a commonwealth. If force be interposed in any of these three cases, it must either frame the government to the foundation, or the foundation to the government; ... or if in the power of the people, anarchy: Each of which confusions, the balance standing otherwise, is but of short continuance, ...
One common misconception, which has been rehearsed repeatedly by the few Anglo-American philosophers who have bothered to broach the topic ... is that anarchism can be defined solely in terms of opposition to states and governments(p. 507).
