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@abgd You'll get no pithy quips from me! Good day sir! (couldn't think of a witty one line definition for Anarchism ;) ).
I said good day!
@mux2000 I don't need witty! Just want inspiration for what might be considered the essence :sweat:
@mux2000 Do you consider that *the* essence? Do you believe anti-state capitalists ("ancaps") are anarchists?
@abgd If you consider government in the broader sense "the ability of one person to dictate the conduct of another", then yes, it's a native, but sufficient definition. By this definition no capitalist is an anarchist, because they acknowledge the governance of capital, and therefore justify the power the rich have to use the poor as labor. And here I've gone into fifteen sentence territory. These things tend to resist being summed up succinctly. :/
@abgd s/native/negative/
@abgd How about "Anarchism is the absence of government" then?