i should say to begin with that the term anarchism is used to cover quite a range of political ideas but i am going to follow your lead and think of it as the libertarian left and from that point of view anarchism can be conceived as a kind of voluntary socialism, that is a libertarian socialist or anarcho-sindicalist, or communist- anarchist in the tradition of say the commandment propulsion and others had in mind the highly organized forms of society but a society organized on the basis of organic units, organic communities and generally they meant by that the workplace or the neighborhood, or both and from those two basic units involving the place where a person works and spends his creative energies and the place where he lives and relation to his neighbors and others around them from those two basic units there could derive through federal arrangements highly integrated kind of suppose social organization which might be national or even international in scope where decisions could be made over substantial range, but by delegates who are always part of the organic community from which they come and returned to attend are revocable and in general would live there &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; so it doesn't mean society in which literally speaking a government some us is that it was the primary authority or social authority comes, as it were, from the bottom up not from the top down, at where representative democracy as we have it in the u.s. and in