"The easiest way to explain anarchism is to say that
it is a political movement that aims to bring about a
genuinely free society - one where humans only enter
those kinds of relations with one another that would not
have to be enforced by the constant threat of violence.
History has shown that vast inequalities of wealth,
institutions like slavery, debt peonage or wage labour,
can only exist if backed up by armies, prisons, & police.
Anarchists wish to see human relations that would not
have to be backed up by armies, prisons and police.
Anarchism envisions a society based on equality and
solidarity, which could exist solely on the free consent
of participants."
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- David Graeber