Being the completely normal (to a certain extent) person that I am, I only really pick up on the bad parts of anarchism, such as hearing reports on the news, "anarchist extremists" doing this and that etc.
I sort of understand anarchism, and I have a strong interest in mainly leftist politics, but there are areas of anarchism that i just can't see realistically hapenning. With any type of revolution, that isn't going to convince a nation or anywhere into mutual aid, and a form of police or autharitarian prescense would be needed to a certain extent, otherwise people just think, "okay, no law, then lets go and nick that" etc etc, as we saw from looters in iraq.
I am no fan of having an authority to control each and every person, and I understand the basis of Mutual aid, but I still have a sort of fear of anarchism, I just see that any type of extreme or radical change isn't right, it must be gradual for it to be sustainable.
I'd love to be corrected on all of my wrongs so please help me out.
From someone interested and waiting to be convinced...
I don't know anybody who thinks that a revolution tommorow would work, so you're in good company. If you're that terrified of sudden change all it means is you'd be a reformist Anarchist as opposed to a revolutionary.