Anarchism is...

Anarchism is the only political philosophy where the practitioners can say "we are not hopeless utopians". It is modelled entirely on the past practice of cooperative institutions (hence names such as Anarcho-Syndicalism as opposed to Blanquism etc.). Furthermore it doesn't seek the 'perfect', 'rational' or 'objective' State. It recognises that such a thing cannot exist, because humans are not perfect. In light of this the State becomes a mere parasite, an unsustainable form of control. Anarchism is the revolutionary struggle to remove that parasite and replace it with more productive and equal social relationships.