Hunters are 'serial killers'.

[Aenlic]

These Green nutjobs give anarchism a bad name.

I somehow missed all of the anti-anarchism posts. I feel obligated to correct some misconceptions.

Anarchism as a political system is not the same thing as anarchy used as another word for chaos. The far too common misconception that anarchism = no order and no government is a sad result of the word anarchy having come to mean violent every-man-for-himself chaos. Thus Lemur's comment about Road Warrior. I can understand why people make that error. Anarchy in common usage has come to mean lack of government, lack of order, lack of society. By that isn't anything resembling anarchism as a political system. It doesn't mean violent chaos. It doesn't mean a bunch of snot-nosed punk rockers who just want to be obnoxious and have no rules.

Also, anarchism - and I'm going to repeat again, this is in the usage of anarchy as a political system not the misconception of it meaning no goverment and no order - does not mean anti-society. In fact, anarchism is all about society. See the first quote in my sig. That sums up the anarchist view. Society is good. Government is bad. But government is a necessary evil. How do anarchists deal with that? By reversing the hierarchy. Instead of rule from the top down as in most political systems including so-called "representative" democracy, anarchism - as a political system, not as a another word for chaos - is all about rule from the bottom up. The essence of anarchist political theory is democracy and freedom. See the second quote in my sig by the so-called "father" of anarchist thought.

And communism is no more or less utopian and idealistic than free market capitalism. Show me a true free market and I'll show you a capitalist economy in which one corporation or a cartel of companies which has not yet managed to drive all of its competitors out of business so it can eliminate the costs of a free market and profit from a monopoly or price fixing or laws protecting it from a free market. Free markets are purely transitory, they can't be the end product of a system which encourages and even rewards the elimination competitors. Any corporation which says it prefers a free market over a monopoly is lying.

If you are still confused over why anarchism is not the same thing as anarchy=chaos, then feel free to read this Anarchist FAQ.