that the people in a society vote for bills before they become laws, often times called “Direct Democracy.” Anarchy and Democracy are two sides of the same coin: Anarchy means no leader, whereas Democracy means the people choose the rules and regulations of society. Of course, I am sure there are instances where there is neither Democracy without Anarchy or vice versa. Our media and United States government has so vulgarized the term Democracy, simply equating it with the idea of “living in liberty” and promoting it every chance they get. The US government is not a Democracy. As long as we have a president and a congress who decide the laws for the people, we are not living in a Democracy — we are living in a Republic, a system where people choose the people who choose the laws, but in issence this is the same as a Dictatorship, as the sole difference is how people are chosen as leaders. To an Anarchist, both the systems of Dictatorship and Republic are evils, as they are productive of depriving people of their right to confront issues. To quote Joseph-Pierre Proudhon on Anarchism…
By the word [anarchy] I wanted to indicate the extreme limit of political progress. Anarchy is… a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties… The institutions of the police, preventative and repressive methods officialdom, taxation etc., are reduced to a minimum… monarchy and intensive centralization disappear, to be replaced by federal institutions and a pattern of life based upon the commune
In my previous writings, I have given the differences between Communism and Socialism always with this one caution: that in our society today, as far as the political parties and philosophers are concerned, the only difference between Communism and Socialism is that Communism
https://www.curabon.com/ be nearly is more extreme. When I wrote my concerns on the matter of Socialism and Communism, I often tried to go to the historical roots of both ideologies: to the works of Marx, Engels, and other thinkers. However, the works of Marx are so expansive beyond just “The Communist Manifesto,” that any person, even those of greatest interest and desire, would be hard-pressed to read all of Marx’s works. So, today, even many of the national Communist parties are unaware of all of the ideas proposed by the great thinker, and I will not deny that even I have neglected some of his more intimidating pieces. To the definitions of our culture, Communism is simply more extreme compared to Socialism, but more extreme to what? The concepts that these systems deal with are the rights of the workers, which often times manifest themselves in minimum working wage, minimum working hours, unions, boycotting, consumer rights, among other things; but, the greatest ideal of both Communism and Socialism, is that the person who works in the factory ought to be the person who owns the factory. This is to say, the individual who produces the goods of society ought to be the one to determine what happens to such goods. As to the greater detail in the difference between Communism and Socialism, I will not further explain, as it would not serve the purpose of this paper. Yet, as far as this essay is concerned, Socialism and Communism will simply mean that the worker is in control of the means of production.