To the editor:

I’m grateful to the author of “Anarchy march?” (Public Forum, May 22) for reminding us of the misguided conception of anarchism held by many people. In the simplest of terms, anarchism is the belief that society can only be fairly organized with no central authority. The reasoning behind this: Governments exist largely to benefit the ruling class at the expense of the working. Few people would deny this of the monarchies of a few hundred years ago. Having closely inspected our rubber-stamp democracy, we believe things have changed very little.

For that reason, anarchists have always opposed war between nations; the poor die, and the rich profit.

I invite anyone who believes that anarchists are maniacal bomb-throwers (or who is simply curious) to seek us and find out for themselves.

Eric Matney,

Lawrence