Spain's Communist Village Is Making The Rest Of The World Look Bad

[yawmwen]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;43203525]It doesn't really work though. Anarcho-capitalism is basically advocating the creation of a stateless society in which the economy is essentially a laissez-faire system. The closest examples to reality I can think of them are usually Medieval societies or Russia and Spain during their respective civil wars (private enterprise occurred in both places with no state authority). Like the anarcho-communist ones they existed alongside (or had elements of in both), they failed in the long run.

Bioshock is probably unlikely, given it existed at the bottom of the sea and was filled with magic slugs.

What I am interested in however, is a political philosophy deliberately designed to create more misery and to actively reduce anything that could be construed as improvement (wealth, happiness, equality, health, etc). It would require the population to be continually on decline, to be suffering from constant hunger and decrease of material goods, increasing inability to think freely within the mind, etc.[/QUOTE]

these aren't "anarcho-" systems. the "anarcho-" designates a context, theory, and premise for struggle. these communists and capitalists didn't have an idea of an anarchist struggle because anarchism had not been developed as an ideology and philosophy.

the "anarcho-" is very important(probably the most important) to creating a sustainable society that isn't based upon a state because people need to have a consciousness of authority and oppression. if the masses don't have a concept of resistance to authority, then the system will inevitably devolve back into statism.

[kuydna]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;43203018]Has anybody written a political philosophy for maximizing human misery yet?[/QUOTE]

The authors of every conservative, labour, democrat and republican party manifesto?

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=kuydna;43203814]The authors of every conservative, labour, democrat and republican party manifesto?[/QUOTE]

Despite what you may think, these manifestos are groping in the general direction we ought to go.

[kuydna]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;43204508]Despite what you may think, these manifestos are groping in the general direction we ought to go.[/QUOTE]

They might each have 1 or 2 pieces of the puzzle, but none of them can do much better. Well, perhaps UKIP.