THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL
www.anarchy.no
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ORGANIZATION RESEARCH
http://www.anarchy.no/iifor.html - IIFOR P.B. 4777 Sofienberg N- 0506 Oslo - Norway
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About democracy and anarchy - Om demokrati og anarki
THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT IS A PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT. AND MUCH MORE ABOUT DEMOCRACY:
For nedenfra og opp styring!
Vi er for betydelig nedenfra – fra Folket – og opp til Øvrigheten - innflytelse på styringen. Dette er reelt demokrati = ANARKI.
For bottom-up governance!
We are for significant bottom-up – from the People – and up to the Authority – influence on governance. This is real democracy = ANARCHY.
Anarki = An-Ark-I betyr system og styring uten hersker(e), An = uten, Ark = hersker og I = system og styring, som i monark-i.
Det betyr ikke at systemet er uten topp og øvrighet, men at innflytelsen på styringen både politisk/administrativt og økonomisk, går mer nedenfra, fra Folket, grasrota, enn fra toppene, ovenfra og ned.
Anarki betyr altså ikke "uten regjering", men system og styring uten hersker. Det kan godt være en regjering ved anarki, bare innflytelsen på styringen går mer nedenfra, fra Folket og opp til øvrighet og regjering, enn motsatt, ovenfra og ned.
Anarchy = An-Arch-Y means system and governance without ruler(s), An = without, Arch = ruler and Y = system and governance, as in monarch-y.
It does not mean that the system is without a top and authority, but that the influence on governance, both politically/administratively and economically, comes more from below, from the People, the grassroots, than from the tops, from the top down.
Anarchy does not mean "without government", but a system and governance without a ruler. There may well be a government under anarchy, but the influence on governance goes more from below, from the People and up to the authorities and government, than the opposite, from above and down.
03.06.2026. Harald Stanghelle: Jonas Gahr Støre er blitt redd for å løfte en demokratisk pekefinger. Det er dårlig nytt. Se: https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentar/i/M7PW1o/med-norge-paa-gummisaaler. Kilde: Aftenposten.
REAL DEMOCRACY IS ANARCHY & ANARCHISM! ANARCHY & ANARCHISM ARE REAL DEMOCRACY = LIBERAL SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY!
REAL DEMOCRACY IS ALWAYS INCLUDING GREEN!
ANARCHY.NO IS ALL ABOUT DEMOCRACY - INCLUDING THE DEMOCRACY PROJECT!
Democracy, the libertarian, anarchy & anarchism and degrees of this, is a question of influence on decisions. All other things are only relevant as far as they affects the influence on the societal decisions. To be more precise: anarchy & anarchism, the libertarian and democracy is a question of influence on the societal decisions by the People = the Bottom of the societal pyramid, the decisions usually and mainly taken by the Top of the societal pyramid, i.e. the Bureaucracy (authorities) broadly defined in private and public sector. The degree of democracy = influence on the societal decisions by the People = the Bottom of the social pyramid, mainly taken by the Bureaucracy, the Top of the social pyramid, measured relatively as a percent degree between 0 % and 100 %, that is a precise measure on how much the People govern = democracy, i.e. the degree of it.
Democracy, and more or less of it, is central to societal politics broadly defined, both economical and political/administrative, and in reality Real Democracy, NB! i.e. always including Green, and Full Democracy as an ultimate aim, is the one and only policy in the interest of the People, i.e. People's Politics. Real Democracy has a degree of democracy equal to 50 % or more, and Full Democracy has 100 % degree of democracy. The degree of democracy = the libertarian degree = the anarchist degree - within anarchy & anarchism = real democracy, i.e. 100% - the authoritarian degree, see - Economic-Political Map below. The Democracy Project is a research project about all topics of democracy and adjacent themes, also praxeology - human action research - including the Green Global Spring GGS. For more information about The Democracy Project, click on IIFOR & the Democ. Project. See: https://www.anarchy.no/iifor.html
En må ikke forveksle det generelle Anarki-begrepet - hele den Anarkistiske kvadranten på det økonomisk-politiske kartet, med det anarkistiske idealet på toppen av kartet, som strekker seg mot "Ingen over – alle ved siden". Men også innenfor det anarkistiske idealet er det delegert styring, nedenfra og opp, se: AI-generated video about the 100% anarchist = real democratic, ideal. Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/anarchistideal.mp4.
One must not confuse the general Anarchy concept - the entire Anarchist quadrant on the economic-political map, with the anarchist ideal at the top of the map, which extends towards "No one above - everyone beside". But also within the anarchist ideal there is delegated management, from the bottom up, see: AI-generated video about the 100% anarchist = real democratic, ideal. Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/anarchistideal.mp4.
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Fig. 1. The Economic-Political Map
The anarchy degree is 100% - the authoritarian degree within the anarchist quadrant. "Esquerda" means left, and "direita" means right.
The star "*" indicates the Norwegian economic-political system after the velvet anarchist revolution in 1994/95. The anarchist ideal, i.e. real democratic ideal, is at the top of the map.
We use the term semi-libertarian for all systems that are not totalitarian and are not anarchist.
THE IDEAL OF DEMOCRACY.
THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT IS A PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT.
MORE THAN 67 % AUTHORITARIAN DEGREE MEANS TOTALITARIAN, ULTRA-AUTHORITARIAN AND EXTREMISM, I.E. DICTATORSHIP!
LESS THAN 67% AUTHORITARIAN DEGREE IS A FORM OF DEMOCRACY.
The most important political struggle of our time is not between right and left, but between democracy vs. dictatorship!
That is the fight against totalitarian dictatorship, but also against non-totalitarian dictatorship, i.e. for real democracy = ANARCHY!
THE IDEAL OF DEMOCRACY
The anarchist (= liberal social-democratic) ideal - the long-term economic-political goal of the anarchists (the liberal social-democrats)!
AI-generated video about the 100% anarchist = real democratic, ideal. Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/anarchistideal.mp4
The anarchist ideal is generally a society organized as far as possible according to anarchist principles, as a guiding star for the economic-political management, etc. The principles for the anarchist ideal society are: 100% socialism and autonomy in the broadest sense, efficiency (Pareto-optimality, also with regard on environmental factors) and justice (the exchange criterion, that no one will exchange positions with anyone else, after all), minimal rank and salary differences - political/administrative and economic hierarchy, including freedom (without deprivation of others' freedom, slavery and tyranny), equality, solidarity; social justice including libertarian (freedomly) law (adopted directly by the people themselves or via delegates) and optimal order, rule of law and human rights, free contracts (not slave contracts), free initiatives, atheism (anarchism is a secular project, but implies full freedom of religion), antimilitarism (based on mutual disarmament and balance of forces), internationalism (not supranationalism, or nationalism), decentralism, self-government and federalism (not hierarchical, EU-like), self-management (autogestion) and libertarian communalism, i.e. decisions are mainly taken locally by the significantly and concretely affected - from anyone according to ability - to anyone according to need. This is the essence of "system and governance without a ruler and ruling" = an-arch-y. That is real democracy.
The usual left vs. the right dimension alone is completely insufficient to provide an adequate picture of the economic-political landscape. The two-dimensional economic-political map presented here gives an adequate picture of the economic-political landscape.
Freedom, i.e. the degree of freedom, is measured by the libertarian degree = 100% - the authoritarian degree. The libertarian degree = the degree of democracy. Freedom, i.e. freedom without harming others' freedom, not freedom at others expence, economically and/or political/administrative, in the widest sense! Real freedom = or > 50% libertarian & democratic, i.e. both economic and political/administrative in the widest sense = Anarchy and Anarchism. Real freedom = or > 50% socialism & autonomy broadly defined = Anarchy and Anarchism. Real democracy always includes green policy, i.e. significant. Real democracy means society should be managed and run from the bottom up, i.e. from the People – grassroots, and upwards, not from the top – down, i.e. significant. This is real federalism. This is freedom in societal perspective. Anarchism is liberal social-democracy = real democracy. Must not be mixed up with Marxist socialdemocracy.
PS. Real federalism is bottom up, the influence goes from the People upwards to the Authorities, i.e. significant.
The Russian «Federation», the EU and USA are not real federalist but dictatorships, run from the top down. China and Iran are also dictatorships. 25.12.2025. Source: AIIS.
A dictatorship, significant top-down governance, as mentioned here, does not have to be totalitarian, a totalitarian dictatorship.
The US is not totalitarian yet, even if Trump (ultra-fascist) is doing his worst to make it so.
And the EU has several semi-libertarian countries, not all members are totalitarian states, like Hungary and Italy.
But the Union itself, taken as a whole, is clearly close to totalitarianism. See: http://www.anarchy.no/eu.html.
Det anarkistiske idealet er som nevnt på toppen av det økonomisk-politiske kartet. Det er noe å strekke seg etter som et langsiktig mål, men lavere plasser på det økonomisk-politiske kartet, innenfor den anarkistiske = liberale sosial-demokratiske, kvadranten, er nok mer realistiske å oppnå. Norge, Den Sveitsiske Konføderasjon og Island er anarkier av lav grad, av den sosial-individualistiske typen. Midtpunktet av kartet er kjennetegnet ved at innflytelsen på styringen går akkurat like mye nedenfra, fra Folket – grasrota, og opp, som fra øvrigheten – toppen i samfunnspyramiden - og ned.
REAL DEMOCRACY IS ANARCHISM AND ANARCHY - ANARCHISM AND ANARCHY ARE REAL DEMOCRACY
FULL DEMOCRACY = 100 % DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY = 100 % ANARCHY DEGREE = THE ANARCHIST IDEAL = THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL
REAL (I.E. INCLUDING GREEN) DEMOCRACY = ANARCHY = ANARCHISM = LIBERTARIAN = LIBERAL SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
NORWAY, THE SWISS CONFEDERATION AND ICELAND ARE REAL DEMOCRATIC = ANARCHIES - WITH 50 % - 55 % DEMOCRACY DEGREE
THE DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY = THE LIBERTARIAN DEGREE = THE ANARCHY DEGREE WITHIN ANARCHISM
50 % DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY OR MORE BOTH ECONOMICAL & POLITICAL/ADMINISTRATIVE = SIGNIFICANT OR MORE REAL DEMOCRACY = ANARCHISM
THE DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY = 100 % - THE AUTHORITARIAN DEGREE = THE LIBERTARIAN OR ANARCHIST DEGREE
100 % DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY = 100 % LIBERTARIAN DEGREE = 100 % ANARCHY DEGREE
100 % DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY = 0 % AUTHORITARIAN DEGREE = 100 % LIBERTARIAN DEGREE = THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL
THE DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY = LIBERTARIAN DEGREE = < 0 % - 33 % > = THE AUTHORITARIAN DEGREE = < 67 % - 100 %> =
ULTRA-AUTHORITARIAN AND TOTALITARIAN TOP - DOWN ECONOMIC-POLITICAL SYSTEMS, I.E. VERY FREQUENT WORLD WIDE!
THE PEOPLE = THE BOTTOM OF THE SOCIETAL PYRAMID VS THE BUREAUCRACY = THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID
THE DEGREE OF DEMOCRACY = THE PEOPLE'S INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIETAL DECISIONS MAINLY TAKEN BY THE TOP - IN %
REAL DEMOCRACY = A BOTTOM - UP MANAGERIAL SYSTEM = ANARCHIST AND LIBERTARIAN
NOT REAL DEMOCRACY = A TOP - DOWN MANAGERIAL SYSTEM = IN GENERAL OR PARTLY AUTHORITARIAN
REAL DEMOCRACY = ANARCHISM & ANARCHY ON THE ECONOMIC-POLITICAL MAP AND IN REALITY, SEE MAP ABOVE!
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