The Vajra Parrot Squawks!

Anarchism/Libertarianism is always defined negatively by the 'mainstream' media and the professional ruling classes. Chaos and disorder is implicit in the definition. In reality, as I've written before, it simply means an absence of self-serving politicians.

Indeed, most of the arguments against Statism or Capitalism are merely exercises in philosophical self-preserveration by those motivated by unbridled greed (Capitalists) or by an unbridled lust for power (Politicians); aimed at convincing Joe Public to accept a status quo which isn't really in his own self-interest, despite all the earnest grins and baby-kissing that might flash across our TV screens and attempt to persuade to the contrary.

The fact remains: party politics as it appears in the West is largely undemocratic in esso. One could argue that the limit of democracy in Britain is merely the opportunity, once every four years, to choose between two very similar ideologies which never manage to represent fully the views of the electorate.

On the right of the political spectrum we have a tendency towards less government and the risk of more exploitation by the money-makers; to the left, we are smothered by more government and less opportunities to better ourselves. The political scene, as it exists, is like a dog endlessly chasing its own tail despite the grins and promises, cajoling or threats of the Blair/Obamas or Bush/Thatchers that this is the only way and that any alternative is inconceivable.

Alternative models of governance are, of course, inconceivable to such politicos because they threaten their very livelihood. As Big Business and party politics are now one and the same thing - punter and prostitute locked forever in a torrid, often incestuous, embrace - Capitalism is the glue that holds the model of Democracy as we know it together.

The only way the link can be broken is for things to get smaller and more local and for any people chosen to represent others in a political sense to be fully accountable.

All the problems we see today on a global level have arisen because of Big Government which seeks to control rather than administer on the behalf of its citizens. It is easy to map the evolution of this lust for power: individuals believe they know better than others and become rulers of villages; rulers of villages want to be ruler of towns; not content with towns they want to become rulers of cities; when cities are not enough they must rule counties; but soon this leads to regions, which leads to nations, which leads to ... we all know where.

After centuries we reach a point where we have a large, professional ruling class who dictate what one can and can't do, steal money against one's wish in the form of taxes or levies, who wage war and destruction against their opponents in the name of the civilians they rule, despite their protestation, whilst blithely feathering their own nests while those beneath them are fleeced to feed the Golden Calf enshrined in the party manifesto.

The arguments against Anarchism/Libertarianism are really just arguments to preserve the systems and processes of Big Government, along with all its pomp and treachery.

If humans are ever to be free then the whole model of government has to be redesigned. We have to go Back to Basics (!), to self-governing local communities, to collective AND individual responsibility. There is no need of Imperialistic foreign policy. Most wars and conflicts have arisen purely because of the existence of Big Government and its ruling elite striking against its own adversaries, rather than the adversaries of its people.

If we ever want to be free we have to sap the power of the professional ruling class which imposes its ideology and conventions on us, however pleasant they might sound. Even the Welfare State can be a form of State tyranny and control.Caveat emptor.