Law under Moses freed nobody from anything except..freedom from a sense of guilt.
That sense of guilt was put into them deliberately.
Otherwise, they wouldn't bring animals to the priests. Guilt and atonement was a get rich quick scheme by Priests.
Under Hitler, the rule of law could kill people for being born into an ethnic group. Blame the ethnic groups and despised underclasses and you escape blame as leader.
Under Stalin, people could be killed for anything at all at anytime by rule of law according to the whims of the party elite. Stalin surrounded himself with quivering sychophants eager to do his bidding so as to preserve their own advantages.
Anarchy is, of course, no rule of law. No rule of anything but the mob. Yet, leaders arise among anarchists themselves!
History has many examples of people getting together to secure an advantage.
That advantage is OUR group is more important than any individual.
The "other" groups are invariably labeled bad, greedy, exploitative, etc.
EXAMPLES:
Communism is a collective (as are forms of socialism, fascism and theocracy.)
A collective compels it members to SERVE the needs of others either through patriotism, welfare, the master race, the brotherhood, etc. Many different techniques and propaganda messageS abound.
The collective mentality is such that individuals can only achieve status by self-sacrifice in the name of the "the cause".
Christians and Muslim alike admire and promote the person who dies in the name of......."fill in the blank". The hero is the Martyr.
It just takes some time for people to get used to the idea of being collectively and not individually responsible for their lives.
Once the individual succumbs their identity becomes the Group itself.
Regardless of how Noble the Cause, people in leadership position are seduced by Power.
The collective becomes servant to the whims of the Leader. The pronouncements of the Leader
transform into an untouchable ideal--beyond criticism. Tests of Loyalty become more important than test of efficiency on the part of Leaders in improving the lot of the members.
Put a laborer in the CEO chair and he'll start doing the same things he railed against as the downtrodden. It's only human nature. You can't change it and you can't beat it.
In Europe there have been many cases of big professional corporations and trade unions colluding at the expense of local workers, i.e. breaking a local strike because the trade unions as big institutions have their personal interests which do not coincide with those of the workers.
In America Unions take compulsory dues and use them for political purposes (often at odds
with the wishes of those paying the dues. Teachers who do not perform well are protected
from being replaced by better teachers. Worker entitlements are forced on a State economy
whic has no means of paying for them in hard economic times leading the State into bankruptcy. (California)
The recurrent flaw in such collectives (collective bargaining) is that it promotes an illusion
that the member's interests are actually represented.
The reality is that sooner or later it is LEADERSHIP interest being represented and the rest is propaganda for public consumption.
The problem with communism is not that it promotes the idea of a collective. The problem is that it uses propaganda to convince people that there is a genuine collective in society that it is protecting and serving.
Reality is that an Elite ruling class replace the ones kicked out in the first place!
The basic tenets of socialism *begin* with the workers union committing itself to rising up against the system that does not represent the workers interest. It matters not whether the system is communism, capitalism or fascism. Ironically, the members of these Unions have no means
of "rising up" against Union leadership when it goes against their personal interests!
We are all familiar with one example of the Religious collective:
Charles Taze Russell began as one humble and eager observer of End Times signs who had the
financial means to serve the needs of others in bringing an important warning about Christ's return.
By the time he died his books had been sold to 20 million readers around the world. How had the
needs of those "little ones" been served?
1.They learned that Pastor Russell was a heavenly selected elite who was the very "mouthpiece of God."
2.They learned Christ had returned invisibly in 1874 and Armageddon would come in 1914. Both wrong!
Under the leadership of Joseph Franklin Rutherford the "little ones" were served by:
1.Reassuring them Pastor Russell was running things from heaven
2.Millions now living would never die because they'd all go to heaven in 1925
3.They had to earn their salvation by peddling books and magazines.
4.The independant congregations needed to turn over control to the Central Authority of the Governing Body of Watchtower leadership.
Throughout history whenever men band together to protect themselves and serve their fellow man the trend drifts inevitably toward greater and greater self-sacrifice and glorification of the Leader or the leader's ideas WHICH ARE OFTEN DISGUISED as noble, pure, truth, divine
who promises to protect and serve them.
When will we ever learn??
How many children die because their parents unflinchingly serve the leadership of their collective?
How much misery in this world comes from Leaders and their true believers?