Anarchism

On anarchism, one way that you can look at it is to imagine that rather than having one axis (left to right), politics has two axes: left to right (goods and services produced through central government planning to the left, by private enterprise to the right) and an axis of freedom - anarchy on one end, totalitarianism on the other.
The left-right axis essentially represents someone's views on how big the state should be, with a proper old-school communist viewpoint being that the state should encompass all activity, while a full-on free-market loony like Milton Friedman basically believes that the state should disppear altogether.
The second axis represents your views on how much force and control the state should use to ensure that people comply with whatever arrangements are going on. So Stalin was far left but also way over to the totalitarian end; some anarchists believe in collective provision of everything (far left) but no control of the individual by the state whatsoever (anarchy). Your US Libertarian believes in no state and no control; your US Republican believes in a small state but plenty of control. And so on.
In this analysis, anarchism is not the desire for absolute anarchy, but a feeling that it's important to keep the pressure on society not to slip towards totalitarianism - to move towards anarchy, but not neccessarily all the way there.
On the bee issue, you can leave the little guys enough honey to live on all winter and still have loads for yourself, and they're much healthier that way. A hive only needs maybe a pound or two to keep them going through a winter, and they'll make you a hundred pounds a year if you look after them. So if you're keeping bees, let them keep a bit, eh? Our relationship with them can be very mutually rewarding if we don't take the piss.