Anarchist Utopia

While searching for topics on which to muse, I found an essay prescribing we all kick the government out and start a new world order that sounded suspiciously like socialism. It stated that there would be no social classes, and each individual just that, an individual. There would be laws on which all agreed, and no monetary system. The society would supposedly survive on the principle of altruism, which states that all people care for each other. Right and wrong would be determined by a persons inherit rights, and they who violated such right would be punished by the whole society accordingly.Now, although it doesn't sound too bad so far, it wouldn't work.

Throughout history we have functioned on the rule of social classes and the monetary system. Next, the essay prescribes the lack of an education system, that each generation teach the next. There would be no circulation or discovery of new knowledge, no disputation. It then states that, 'in the ideal society, where the aforementioned principles are taught, people don't need to work in order to buy material possessions. Instead, the sole motivation to work is to gather the necessities of life (i.e. water, food, shelter etc) and each generation would teach what is needed to be known in order to get these things'. Simply existing on the basic necessities in this almost indigenous society would never allow it to grow and evolve as we know those who have followed the same way have. The essay then goes on to further explain the treatment of conflict/violence, in much the same way you would expect a tribe to do. The economy is proved to be entirely socialistic, with 'any luxury item the individual wants outside of the society to be obtained through trade'. That particular sentence indicates that such a society is likely to be mutually exclusive, as has been indicated by similar societies in the past. It is interesting to note the admittance of the amount of people likely to live in such a society, which is very small, and that sole maintenance of the society comes of the acceptance and abidance of its principles, (stated as a 'contract'). Despite the way its fundamentals have been described previously, the society would have TV, music etc, that 'nothing will be censored, because that is the way people are informed'. As it is likely this allowance of information to cause dissatisfaction amongst those following the anarchist society, it continually stresses the importance of abidance to the 'contract'. Such a society would never work. History, and human nature, are proof enough.