What if you look at societies like a computer program and the governments like a programming language?


I was thinking that anarchism is asm or binary and Marxism is java or a managed dotnet language?

Nah, I'd say both could be likened to BASIC - they deal with abstracts and logic based on the assumption things work a given way, but not the granular details of how things actually work. We could say the same about any ideology, really.

Marxism strikes me more as Python..

Hey that's a unique way of looking at it! After some thought.... here is my take:

Marxism = Visual Basic. It looks clean, easy and so inviting to step right in......and get buried with. Ahh.. so much the simple appearance covers and figures you never need to know about.

Capitalism = Ruby. The learning curve is almost beyond being worth it...but when it works well, it's a thing of beauty. Oh, but one comma or bracket out of place and the whole thing breaks.

Socialism (European Style as opposed to Communist) = Turbo C of the old variety. It's clean, simple and what you write is what it does. Nothing much hidden and if you don't like it....you can choose another. Not much room for anything else.

Anarchism = Original Basic of the MS-DOS and CP/M days. What you see is truly what you get and it's as simple as it comes. Grade school kids can learn it inside a couple days and it does real neat and fun things! It just doesn't do much on a large scale and really gets lost on complexity life requires.

Hey.. What do ya know, they all really DO fit a language when you stop and think about it!

I would take a gander that Marxism would be Cobol. Something that was thought to be great at the time, implemented by large bureaucracies, but ultimately faded out because it couldn't keep up with modern day programming.

Anarchism is definitely ASM. Very powerful, but you're easily able to lose focus with the complexity of the program. Yeah it is a processor language, but a nightmare to create anything big with.