# Anarchists of the world, Unite! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 31, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885 "2000-12-31T07:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/1 "2000-12-31T07:33:17Z")
[sub](Sort of an oxymoron) ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/2 "2000-12-31T08:00:47Z")
This has to be the best pit thread I’ve seen all year. :wally ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/3 "2000-12-31T08:02:10Z")
Me too. It just turned 12:00 here too. ;wally ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/4 "2000-12-31T08:03:35Z")
Hey, wait. You’re off by a day. Had me going there for a minute :wally ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/5 "2000-12-31T08:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShakeNBake \* > \*\*[sub](Sort of a…moron) \*\* Yes, yes you are. ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/6 "2000-12-31T08:27:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enderw23 \* > \*\*That’s it. I am now officially going to Hell. \*\* Yes, yes you are. \*\* [/QUOTE] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/7 "2000-12-31T08:46:08Z")
Actually, I’m kinda thinking that anarchists go to purgatory. Of course, every time I see anarchist, I think it says antichrist. Anyone else do that? Anyway, I’m pretty sure I know where they’re going. ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/8 "2001-01-01T07:31:19Z")
Well, actually, contrary to the common conception, Anarchy != Chaos. It’s simply a society that sustains itself without a government. In a certain sense, an anarchical society would require more unity than any other. Since most anarchists also hold to socialist and (little _c_) communist ideas, “Anarchists Unite” is less an oxymoron than an anarchist’s plea. ---
**Author:** ![Short](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Short](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/9 "2001-01-01T08:55:39Z")
Listen to Tzel, he is the vice undersecretary for the public relations subcommittee of the Anarchist Revolution ™. :rolleyes: Here is Emma Goldman (noted anarchist) on the definition of Anarchism: > [@](#): > > Anarchism:- The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong, as well as unnecessary. _From Anarchism and Other Essays, by Emma Goldman_ It is easy to see how such a definition would seem to be advocating chaos. Of course, Anarchists generally don’t believe in no organization, rather that the organizations should be voluntary (and are self-organizing). Oh and for the record, I don’t speak for all Anarchists. You know, this is my first Pit post. I feel dirty… yet strangely satisfied. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/10 "2001-01-01T16:15:34Z")
All I know is that I went to Washington on a bus full of anarchists. And they were fabulous demonstrators, but I mean, really, we had to reach consensus before we could stop to go to a goddamn Taco Bell. I was like, excuse me, it’s not inherently fascist to be able to take a decision, people. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anarchists-of-the-world-unite/47885/11 "2001-01-02T00:01:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I was like, excuse me, it’s not inherently fascist to be able to take a decision, people. Fascist pig!