Having had discussions with various anarchist friends, and skimming through sites like "An Anarchist FAQ" (well one of them anyway), as well as going through the threads on this forum, anarchism seems great, and I do base some of my policial beliefs on anarchist principles such as horizontal organisation and direct democracy, although I don't consider to be an anarchist myself.
I have this problem though. As the saying goes, If something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Anarchism seems to provide many plausable answers to the world's woes, but every ideology has its flaws, and it concerns me that there seems to be very few people finding valid, credible reasons for criticing anarchism in the same way that people have found flaws in say, Marxism (which I also once used to think had the solution to the world's problems).
Anarchism could be seen as the perfect way to organise society, however I am not saying that all anarchists are utopians, but surely one day, in a future anarchist society, there would be "post-anarchists" picking holes in the ideologies and finding severe problems with the system and ultimatlely replacing it, as capitialism replaced feudalism, and like the current criticisms laid at today's capitialist system. And there would still be the intrinsic problems that face people whatever system they live under, life isn't perfect, and that's probably for the best as life would be pretty boring otherwise!
Finally, there is also the issue of that dreaded concept, "human nature". As things stand, the track record of Homo sapiens over the past 20,000 years of existance has been to degreade the earth's environment, and to be greedy to one another, and I have doubts that the human race will break the habit of a lifetime.
Definetly, i hope we can always progress. But thats what an anarchist society is to me, its not a definite economic / social system. Its a society in which we as people can progress and explore ways to move on. I dont think you can look at Anarchy (as in our goal) as like any other 'system' because it has totally different objectives.
As for the too goo to be true but, i dont think anything is too good to be true....