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anarchy: yesterday's thinking?

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This has been a popular post but after a re-read I found it needed some work and a re-posting. So no you are not going daft thinking you had seen this title before....you have. Anarchy has been a word out there in the news and related vaguely to the Occupy Movement. I wrote this mainly to show that yes I have gone over some material and no I'm not a scholar. Together we will take a look at Anarchy. One: what the heck is it? It, like any ideology, can have a number of variations but the central idea is that there is no one person with power and decisions are made through the collective of the working class. It is argued that it's our natural state, I won't refute that. Two: will it work? In 1930 something there was a anarchistic state created in Spain. The world was in chaos compared to today. Fascism was spreading and the people of Spain created an anarchistic socialist state. More on that period http://www.spunk.org/texts/places...