06 November 2008

Yay Anarchism!

Goldman makes some grossly positive assumptions about humanity. She goes back to the social contract theory, and says that 'wealth consists in things of utility and beauty'. People should join together only when they wish to. She assumes that men can protect themselves against injustice. In short, she states that Anarchism empowers the individual in a way that no other ideology does. It one-ups freedom.
I read Ayn Rand extensively, and her concept of creators vs. second-handers comes into play with anarchism as well. In a structured society, people doing what they hate to do will of course make it harder [via 'crime'] for people trying to create beauty. In an unstructured society, people are free to make great things, and trade those for things that other people make. The natural conclusion is that if everybody makes something that they want to make, they will make it well, thereby bringing both happiness and satisfaction to all.