Anarchism And Political Atheism

Anarchism is political atheism. What do I mean when I say that?

Anarchism is the absence of belief in politics and government like atheism is the absence of belief in religion.

Anarchism is apolitical in that it views politics and government as being irrelevant in the position of individuals gaining independence for themselves in a sustainable manner.

Where government supporters offer political and government solutions to everything anarchists instead offer individual solutions to people.

The whole bedrock of government in centralization of everything is monopolization. For anarchists it is the opposite.

Government is pro institutionalism where anarchists are anti institutionalism.

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Anarchism is political atheism. What do I mean when I say that?

Anarchism is the absence of belief in politics and government like atheism is the absence of belief in religion.

I think you need to be careful that you don't clump all anarchism into one "catch-all" philosophy. What I mean is that some anarchism tends to be totally individualistic, whereas others are collectivist.
It tends to be the belief that the state is unnecessary, not the absence of belief in politics as such. Therefore this statement seems incorrect to me.

I think it would be more accurate to say that anarchism is political humanism: The state/church/divine power is no longer regarded as necessary, instead the power comes from within.

And yes, I have a problem with humanists claiming to be atheist. They may reject the concept of divinity of nature/universe but they replace it with divinity of reason and Human Ideals.

Perhaps anarchism could be better described as an autotheism... like buddhism.

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Anarchism is apolitical in that it views politics and government as being irrelevant in the position of individuals gaining independence for themselves in a sustainable manner.

I disagree that anarchism is apolitical. It is a political position. Any engagement between two individuals is political, and always has some economic or individual interest behind it. The philosophy behind anarchism is political at its heart.

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Where government supporters offer political and government solutions to everything anarchists instead offer individual solutions to people.

You actually seem to be clumping anarchism and right-wing politics into one group - what you say could be true of liberal capitalists as well as leftist anarchists. The two are not necessarily the same.

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Government is pro institutionalism where anarchists are anti institutionalism.

This is correct.

Mono, I am a anarchist individualist so I tend to be somewhat biased with that particular kind of sect in thinking.

I know there are ideological differences in anarchists like anybody else.

I really do not like humanism as a philosophy because it is built on too many assumptions.

My particular version of anarchism is apolitical however I do embrace tribalism and mutualism but I do not view that to be political in the conventional sense.

Unlike other anarchist traditions I see violence, war, and conflict as eternals that cannot be done away with. Such things are inevitable.

I criticize all governments. For me the whole left-right paradigm is largely delusional.