It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. However, it is necessary to examine on what grounds democratic regimes acquire their supposed legitimacy and whether other types of rule can be legitimate too. The notion of 'legitimacy' is too broad to be discussed as one concept, it covers input legitimacy, output legitimacy, legality, will of the people, ...

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Anarchism may be defined as a political philosophy based upon nonhierarchical free associations, decentralized and without coercive authority with guidance from innate human tendencies towards cooperation and avoidance of suffering being aloud open expression. ... Daniel Guerin purports that anarchy is the "most complete disorganization of society" which constructs a "new, stable and rational order based upon freedom and solidarity", with the creation of worker autonomy as the chief liberating factor. ...

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However, when legal stratification is no longer part of the equation, the barriers to communication between citizens perish along with the disappearance of the deceptive idea of undisputable greatness and superiority and what remains is a society of more rational individuals who act on 'visible', empirical evidence and not on illusions that demand submission ("dans un pays où les citoyens, devenus à peu près pareils, se voient tous de fort près, et n'apercevant dans aucun d'entre eux les signes d'un grandeur et d'une supériorité...

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