By Kareem Maize|January 6, 2024

The famous question always comes up when you say, “hey I’m an anarchist” – if someone doesn’t tell you to move to X country or get in a fight, they ask, “well what is an anarchist” or “what is anarchy”. I think this can be answered in two ways based on my analysis. I know ancaps, ancoms, agorists, and mutualists might say “well my version of anarchy is this society with this economic system” but from my observation, as someone who looks for patterns, I do see some common ground. Anarchy could simply mean the absence of a ruler or rulers, but I would say if you want to have a fundamentally complete understanding of it, it really means “without central constructs” or institutions with a monopoly on violence. Why do I say that? Because rulers can only verbally dictate orders in most cases or cause issues in their local proximity – they need a central institution to carry out their violent behavior on a massive scale. The king cannot extort everyone by himself and Schwaby and Friends need to get their goons involved to make you follow the WEF dictates (if it even happens at all). The institutions are the fundamental and will always be the fundamental driving forces of tyranny; the more power becomes concentrated, the worse the institution.

This is not to say institutions could not exist, but no institution should have a monopoly on violence or really any monopoly at all if it can be helped through either market competition, cooperative decentralized communes, and other types of decentralized societies. This solves the negative aspect of the first part of “what is an anarchist?” It’s someone who rejects the monopoly on violence from central institutions as inherently illegitimate – meaning it has no basis in civilized society and no proximity of karmic value in nature law (if you want to get metaphysical). Now that we have half the equation solved, we should solve the other half, as many people will say “I don’t like the government, man” or I don’t like “x” government service but offer no reasonable alternative.

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