"...Many people equate anarchy - Greek for "no rulers" - with chaos. Its critics say that removing authority structures, particularly in this age of global terrorism, would be disastrous. Soviet communism also started with utopian visions of egalitarianism, but it led to dictatorship, noted Brink Lindsey, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. Anarchism, he said, is based on a naive understanding of human nature and would lead to a backward, village-based society incompatible with the complex division of labor in the global economy. "The sober thinking is that this is a fantasy," Lindsey said..." FROM
http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos15593.html
Would it be to much to ask our resident professional journalist friend,Declan to follow his fellow scribes example and substitute,'conservative,' for the misleading term,'libertarian,' that he habitually uses?

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