PART II
Now that I have covered, albiet briefly, the issue of human nature, that leaves the issue of Anarchism in practice. First, again, I say that I cannot speak for all Anarchists, there are many different sub-groups, Anarchosyndicalists like my fav Noam Chomsky, Green Anarchists like Murray Bookchin, Individualist Anarchists like Max Stirner (I'm a bit critical of this lot.), Anarchafeminists, etc., etc. Anarchism is a broad intellectual tradition going back well over a hundred years, that has played a significant role in American history, the involvement in the labor movement (August Spies, etc.) that gave us the forty hour week and the weekend, they were involved in womens' liberation, Emma Goldman, for example, whose writing converted me to Anarchism in the first place. Theres' also Sacco and Vanzetti, and Leon Czolgosz who shot Pres. McKinley. THAT said... I find the assertion that an Anarchist society would be absolute chaos to be suspect. There are two principal points, one, that Anarchy is in itself chaos, or would automatically create chaos. First of all, I think any social group abhors chaos, in any social group people are going to interact, and some form of order will take place. Sustained chaos must be perpetuated by greater outside, or overarching forces. While there are many different schools of thought, Anarchists as a rule do not oppose organization, production, technology, the objection is to exploitation, and subservience. I don't think transitioning directly from our present state to an Anarchist state instantaneously would work very well, like many Anarchists I see it as a long-term goal, to be approached gradually. It's truly amazing the variety and complexity of organization people can form with one another organically, without being forced to. Take all the effort and creativity and interaction that goes on at this forum, for example. If you want historical examples, I'd point to the Spanish Anarchist collectives, or the Israeli Kibbutzim, which were established pretty much along Anarchist principles.