Anarchy
idea · 3 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
anarchy · No Government · anarchists · complete anarchy · state of anarchy · stronger would roast the weaker
spoken of as
1 expressionDanger of a kingless world“anarchy”1 mention
Nāradasmṛti (Sanskrit)
If there were no king on earth to wield the rod of punishment, the stronger would roast the weaker like fish on a spit.
in the texts
Law in a Free State
The doctrine of 'No Government', presented as a distant ideal toward which society is moving but not yet ready to adopt fully.
Again, it clearly follows that if we are not yet ripe for complete anarchy, we must have an admixture of something which is not anarchy.
We may advocate democracy because it leads straight to anarchy, and yet at the same time hold that the rule for our practical guidance is not embodied in the formula, “No Government.
This will be a nut for anarchists of the future to crack.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The absence of a determinate Sovereign, described as either a transitional interval after political division or a condition of indeterminate power.
If the community be violently or voluntarily divided into a number of separate fragments, then, as soon as each fragment has settled down (perhaps after an interval of anarchy) into a state of equilibrium, the Sovereign will exist and with proper care will be discoverable in each of the now independent portions.
The possession of physical power, which is one characteristic of Sovereignty, has as matter of historical fact repeatedly been for a time in the hands of a number of persons not determinate, not so connected together as to be capable of exercising volition, but such a state of things Austin would call anarchy, though it might not have all the usually recognised symptoms of a revolutionary interval.
Nāradasmṛti
The idea that social order collapses into predation without royal punishment, used to justify kingship
If there were no king on earth to wield the rod of punishment, the stronger would roast the weaker like fish on a spit.
If the king did not wield the rod of punishment for all the classes that have strayed from the path, these people would perish.
A Brāhmaṇa would abandon his Brāhmaṇical nature, a Kṣatriya would give up his Kṣatriya nature, a Vaiśya would abandon his own work, and a Śūdra would transgress against all.