"Anarchy is the mother of order!" - this slogan, written on black banners, is repeatedly found in documentary newsreels and in films about the Civil War. To this day, there are many supporters of anarchy in the world, that is, a philosophical and political doctrine, according to which people do not need any state power at all.
What are the basic principles of anarchy
Supporters of anarchy believe that it is necessary to abandon the administrative apparatus, laws, since people themselves will be able to organize both their personal and social life. But is it? The main principles of anarchism: the absence of power, complete freedom of each person, mutual assistance, equality, brotherhood. Anarchists believe that the absence of coercion from the state or people has a beneficial effect on a person. Recognizing the need to take into account the interests of other people, to work for the common good, supporters of anarchy defend the principle of collective management from the bottom up. The solution of the most important and global issues, in their opinion, can be entrusted to special meetings of authorized delegates.
But each of these delegates can be immediately recalled if the team that gave him the mandate is dissatisfied with his work.
Anarchy, according to its adherents, is the best form of human interaction. This political philosophy originated in ancient times. The distant predecessors of today's anarchists include the famous philosopher Diogenes, as well as the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, who is the founder of the teachings of Taoism.
Why attempts to build an anarchist society have always failed
It is not hard to understand that many of the principles of anarchy are very similar to the communist ones. But just as attempts to build a communist society in different countries invariably failed, so the attempts of the adherents of anarchy to translate their views into reality did not lead to success.
Of course, any state power limits its citizens within the framework of laws, resorts to methods of coercion. However, without this, society will inevitably slide into chaos and the reign of the "laws of the jungle", where the strongest and most unprincipled survive. Even the very collective self-government, for which the anarchists ardently advocate, should have some kind of authority to establish order and punish those people who violate the established rules and harm the interests of others. But any punishment, according to the anarchists, is violence, which they do not accept. It turns out a vicious circle.
In theory, anarchy may look good, but in practice it turns out badly.
That is why the attempts of such a famous anarchist as Nestor Makhno during the Civil War to build a "just" republic on the territory of what is now South-Eastern Ukraine turned into bloodshed and violence.
