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Libertarian, as it is often understood in the US, isn't really my primary focus, because it often still allows certain hierarchies to go unchecked. In anarchy, which means no leader, all hierarchy gets challenged. My main focus is being allowed to focus work towards what I think needs to be done, without jeopardizing my survival. In other words, selling widgets or being involved in a service industry that have little relevance to survival, and but is unavailable to me does not come from a justifiable type of society.
While I would like to wake up one morning to find that we have an anarchist society, I don't expect it in at this point of time either. One of the problems of not supporting an idea because it is unachievable is that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Anarchism is a philosophy which certain elements many people practice. Food Not Bombs usually will set up at a place without permits, even when it is required or a demonstration may be held without permit; collectives will develop but their is no leader.
Currently there are movements that are occurring in the world based on anarchist principles. Mexico has a few places in the South, much of it by indigenousness peasants that are constantly booted off land. There are also movements in Greece, and in China.
What I beilieve in is that people who should make the decisions are the people who are in the front lines of production. I don't think it is necessary to have bosses, rather decisions should be made by equals.
I believe that capitalism encourages people to be aggressive to each other, and it encourages people to consume recourses much faster than it is sustainable and necessary.
There are many people whom you may have heard of that have similar politics as I, most notably, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Emma Goldman, just to name a few.
Now, I doubt I answered your question, but I do hope that you have gained some insight to my thinking.
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