Reply #25: I actually am not an anarchist, but you are wrong in you assessment of it. [View All]

[white_wolf]

For starters, libertarians do believe that you need a minimal government, anarchists do not believe in a state at all. It has been tried before, and worked fairly well into it was crushed by Franco's fascists. Read Orwell's Homage to Catalonia to see what Anarchy is like when put into practice. Here is a short excerpt from the opening chapter of the book:

The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workman. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivised;