If I am not mistaken, the anarchist school of thought is okay with governance and even governments, but not with the concept of the state - an entity that exists to enforce governance with violence. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia

I’m not 100% sure though.

edit - a (vs. the) school of thought is more accurate.

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xboxnolifes 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That may be one of them, but there isn't a singular anarchist school of thought.

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JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> there isn't a singular anarchist school of thought

Would be oxymoronic if there were one.

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mc32 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn’t that like saying there must be as many universes as theoretical physicists can think up? Slight maybe but it could also just be one.

	▲	JumpCrisscross an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Isn’t that like saying there must be as many universes as theoretical physicists can think up? Schools of thought are theories. It’s saying there can be as many theoretical universes as theoretical physicists can think up. This is true for any social construct, of course. But anarchy’s nature means you get less alignment.

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cess11 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The ideal of self-governance as opposed to alienated state or institutional governance is quite common in anarchist thought. Some would probably consider it foundational for the tendency.

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gary_0 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think of anarchy as a theoretical end state, where power is perfectly distributed among each individual, but that this is less of an actually achievable condition and more of a direction to head in (and away from monarchy, where power is completely centralized).

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cholantesh 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nozick's libertarianism is not really an anarchist school of thought.