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<font size="5">'''Follow-up and argument:'''</font>

{{p|s1}}'''OBSERVATIONS ON [[Anarchy 62/Anarchism as a theory of organisation|ANARCHY 62]]:'''

'''ANARCHISM AS A THEORY OF ORGANISATION'''

{{sc|[[Author:Colin Ward|Colin ward]]{{s}} [[Anarchy 62/Anarchism as a theory of organisation|article]] on anarchism}} as a theory of organisation was most interesting and instructive but the sting, I feel, lies in the tail. Anarchism does present an alternative theory of organisation but how do we set about making {{qq|the opportunities of putting (it) into practice}}?

{{tab}}Social ideas may well become important but will they be concerned with {{qq|systems of large variety sufficient to cope with a complex unpredictable environment}}? It is possible that they would rather be concerned with a complex, but essentially more predictable environment in which {{qq|welfare}} is distributed more equably but in which the government{{s}} grip on the citizen is vastly increased{{dash}}though in more subtle ways than in the past.

{{tab}}Ward notes that {{qq|people have been conditioned from infancy to the idea of accepting an external authority}}. Accepting the authority of the government in the social sphere absolves one from so much (painful) responsibility to one{{s}} fellows. {{qq|They}} may put awkward irritating obstacles in one{{s}} way in certain spheres but it seems that for the majority, unconcerned with social and {{qq|world}} problems, life is remarkably pleasant and orderly in the affluent society.

{{tab}}For what are the anarchists offering? Freedom yes, but how is this concept to be made meaningful to the majority? It is freedom with responsibility; problems will have to be solved by the use of personal effort and initiative.

{{tab}}How are people to be persuaded that this will give them a more satisfying life than the present attitude of letting {{qq|them}} get on with it. Anarchist organisation would require active participation not acquiescence but I am sure that it is not immediately apparent to many people that this is {{qq|freedom}} or, indeed, worth very much.

{{tab}}{{w|Rousseau|Jean-Jacques_Rousseau}} was very well aware of this dilemma, although he suggested a Legislator (!) as the way out for people enmeshed  in a destructive social process over which they had no control. Substitute {{qq|anarchism}} for {{qq|law}} and this seems to sum up the situation very well; {{qq|The social spirit, which should be created by these institutions, would have to preside over their very foundation; and men would have to be before law, what they should become by law}}.

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Anarchy 66/Observations on Anarchy 62 - Revision history

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