I have a theory. (technically I have many but today I’m talking about this one.) Well actually it’s more of a visualization. As an anarchist I have spend a lot of time pondering on anarchist society and it’s relation to the archic one. This pondering led me to this scale. The Chaos-Order scale. It position political systems on a single point depending on the amount of chaos a society deems acceptable.
I decided to divide the scale into 4 sections. There could be more but i wanted clearly defined borders between them.
- Total chaos
- Anarchy
- Democracy
- Authoritarianism (Authy)
These sections are defined by clear boundaries (marked with #):
- The minimum required order for society
- Anarchy-Democracy border
- Democracy-Authorotarianism border
The arrows signify how every section can be entered.
It should be noted that anarchy and total chaos are separated by an impassable border. #1 The minimum order for society. This is because total chaos can only exists for a moment between archic systems collapsing and the formation of an extremely authoritarian society (The rule of violence). True anarchic systems should be immune to this collapse as it requires the complete breakdown of the social bonds between people.
The second border is the anarchy-democracy border. This border is defined by having any form of hierarchical society. It is passed when an anarchist revolutionary class takes control of the entire functioning of society or when an anarchic society collapses back into archy.
The third is the democracy-authy border. This is defined by having some form of democratic control over society. Essentially free elections. Most people should already be familiar with the concept.
This post really does one hell of an awful job of presenting a non-left/right idea
My mind does not immediately think that every scale on the internet that is connected to politics is a left-right one. I think the left-right divide is actually quite bad. There isn’t a lot of similarity between Communists and anarchists, and to group them together is in my opinion quite dumb.
Not to mention what’s considered left is widely different depending on who you talk to. In america it’s essentially used for the center-right. For me the best definition is worker-owned means of production but even that disqualifies all of the Communists so IDK.
Why post a graphic misrepresenting that?
How would you recommend displaying this graphic instead? horizontally? I guess it would work. This is just how I saw it in my mind so I drew it, and considering no-one else has commented I think most people get it.