An Anarchist Statement of Principles A clear and unambiguous statement of anarchist principles is needed to separate the muddled authoritarian sheep from the anti-statist goats. Anarchism is not terrorism or violence, and anarchists do not support, aid, or sympathize with terrorists and so-called national liberation movements. Anarchism does not mean irresponsibility, parasitism, criminality, nihilism or immoralism, but entails the highest level of ethics and personal responsibility. Anarchism does not mean hostility toward organization. Anarchists only desire that all organizations be voluntary and declare that a peaceful social order will exist only when this is true.
Anarchists are opposed to all coercion.
Poverty, bigotry, sexism and environmental degradation cannot be successfully overcome through the State. Anarchists are therefore opposed to taxation, censorship, so-called affirmative action and governmental regulation in general. Anarchists do not need scapegoats. Only the abolition of coercion will overcome these problems. Anarchism does not posit any particular economic system, but only desires a non-coercive economy composed of voluntary organizations.