Noam Chomsky frequently uses the "saving a child from being hit by a car" example to explain his concept of "justified authority".
Anarchy has no qualms with the isolated use of force, just the structural institution of authority. It doesn't give you ownership over the person you're helping. A temporary spur-of-the-moment action to preserve life is not authority. Similarly, when a child is about to walk in front of a speeding truck and you grab their hand to stop them, you're not using authority. This isolated action you took to preserve your own life does not magically imbue you with the authority to go on a killing spree. This was a simple use of force it does not make you an authority over the person who tried to kill you. In the resulting scuffle, you kill them in self-defense. Imagine you're walking home at night and someone jumps out of the shadows and tries to stab you. These individuals are expected to submit to this mighty authority figure and obey their commands unwaveringly. It's a relationship where authority figures assert power over less-powerful individuals in their care. A coercive relationship that has been legitimized by our authoritarian hierarchical society. Authority is a distinct on-going social relationship between people. Authority is not simply an isolated instance of a person using force. Their talent doesn't give them the right to assert authority power over anyone. I assume that determination is made by a further authority? An authority that is also justified? And which authority justified that authority.? It's silly when anarchists try to go down this justified authority rabbithole.Ī carpenter might be good at making cabinets, an expert at it even, but that doesn't make them an authority.
They of course never explain who gets to determine which authority is justified. They say anarchy only opposes unjustified authority. To pretend otherwise would be a blatant misrepresentation of what anarchy is.Ī lot of people confuse expertise for authority and then use that confusion to insist anarchy doesn't oppose all authority. It will do harm and the people who signed off on legitimizing it are (or should be) culpable for that harm.Īnarchy is the opposition to authority. Whether it was your original intention to enable a violent force of power when you legitimized an authority is irrelevant. Always grows, never stops to examine its devastating effect on its surroundings.
It'll want more power because that's the nature of power. When you legitimize an authority, you're granting it power, presenting it as an institution that needs to be obeyed at all costs, and it won't stop there. Yes, even in a parent-child relationship. Doesn't matter if you call yourself an anarchist while justifying hierarchies you personally approve of for whatever reason. It's not a meme it's the entire reason anarchy exists as a practice. We've all heard the phrase "all power corrupts". Once you start justifying authority and hierarchy, you effectively twist a knife in anarchy. Destroying archy where you see it does not create archy, it creates anarchy. Similarly, an individual using force to strike a blow at the hierarchy that oppresses them does not turn the individual into an authority. A roofer laying your roof or a chef cooking your meal or a surgeon repairing your heart needn't be your superior on a hierarchy simply because they are providing you with a valued service. Choosing to accept a specialist's expertise in their craft needn't create a hierarchy or make them your ruler. Not all guidance given by one person to another constitutes hierarchy. This control is maintained with violent force by authorities appointed by the rulers: the army, national guard, police, courts, prisons, social workers, the media, tax collectors, etc. Hierarchies exist for rulers to maintain their social control & power over the population. While anarchy calls for the absence of rulers, archy thrives when a population serves and obeys rulers.
#WORDS THAT HAVE ARCHY IN THEM FULL#
While anarchy is the opposition to hierarchy and authority, archy is the full embodiment of those things. Be it a Monarchy, an oligarchy, a republic, a feudal state or any other hierarchical society. The dictionary definition of 'archy' is any body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
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