Re: [WDDM] Anarchism and Direct Democracy

[Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it>]

Dear Mirek,

you did not answer my post.

Let me quote what you did not of it:

...

> Well now, I have nothing against some inhabitants of
> the world who decide to adopt a different, personal
> meaning for words that have a shared meaning by the
> remaining majority of the inhabitants the world.
> But -- if they do so -- they are a sect, not a member
> of democracy.
>
> BTW, I go back to my shareable OAL dictionary, and
> read under the item "sect":
> - Sect = group of people who share (esp religious)
> beliefs or opinions which differ from those of most
> people.
Now, wikipedia's is a self-made dictionary.  I have no
doubt that the self-claimed Anarchists wrote into it
the best definitions of themselves.  But I do not find
out there any shareable definition for "sect", how this
term may fit to Anarchism.

Thanks anyway for your kindly detailed reply


antonio





M. Kolar ha scritto:
> Dear Antonio,
>  your dictionary seems to be not very correct or maybe even
> intentionally misleading on what is anarchism. Anarchists do not want
> the absence of any control in society, but only the abolition of the
> hierarchical authority - the same thing that we want. It was still a
> surprise for me that modern anarchists are so close to genuine
> democracy as you agreed in your reply!
>
>  Wikipedia gives a much better definition:
>
> *Anarchism* is a political philosophy
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy> or group of
> philosophies and attitudes which reject any form of compulsory
> government <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government> (cf.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf.> "state
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State>"), and support its elimination,
> most often because of a wider rejection of any form of hierarchical
> authority <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority>. The term
> "anarchism" derives from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology> the
> Greek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language> αναρχία
> <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%AF%CE%B1>
> ("without archons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon>" or "without
> rulers").
>
>  PVR: Anarcho-syndicalists also call themselves "libertarian
> socialists", you'll find that term also in the link you send us.
>
>  See also my reply to Bruce in the Forum:
> http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/forum/read.php?5,511,513#msg-513
>
> Mirek
>
> Antonio Rossin wrote:
>
> > Dear Mirek (and list)
> >
> > ......
>
> > On this basis, I go to my Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary
> > and read under the items:
> > - Anarchy = 1. absence of government or control in society.
> >    Lawlessness.  2. Disorder, confusion
> > - Anarchism = political theory that laws and government should
> >    be abolished.
> > -  Anarchist = person who believes in anarchism
> >
> > ........
>
>
> > In conclusion, it seems to me that the ten points in your quote
> > belong to genuine democracy, something else but anarchism.
> >
> > That the anarchist may claim that those ten points belong to
> > "anarchism", it sounds somehow abusive, the dictionary tells.
> >
> >
> > Hoping this helps, best regards
> >
> > antonio