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If I were an anarchist, I would be none to pleased with the traditional heraldry. Black flags and black cats and fists and all? Nope. Not for me.

Besides, the only kind of anarchism I'm tempted by is the oddly named anarchocapitalism, and there's no accepted heraldry for that. Still, one anarchocapitalist has even invented a flag to go along with this ideology!

Way too complicated for my tastes. And the crown? The Austrian Empire?

So I designed a flag for this kind of anarchist:

It's black, but bisected with a stripe. The stripe is white and rainbow. This should symbolize diversity well enough. Symbolizing money in some altered dollar bill sign (a common image used by Rand-reading anarchists) strikes me as silly. But then, to each his own.

Which suggests to me a better flag idea: a quilt.

That is, every anarchist is allowed to make a flag-shaped quilt, out of squares, with half the squares black, and half the squares the colors of the rainbow. Alternate the black squares. Leave everything else up to the individual.

This would be a good flag for panarchism, an interesting twist on competitive governments and non-monopolistic territory. That is, anarchocapitalism packaged for those not exactly moved by the idea of markets.

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