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    51 month ago

    Anarchism uses democracy and consensus to make decisions

    Genuine question: Is that not a democracy?

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      71 month ago

      No, as there are no leaders

      In a democracy you give your vote and have no say afterwards.
      In an anarchy people need to work out their social rules together.
      There could also be Anarchist societies with a police force, that ensures the basic democratically created roles of that society are followed - like protecting people from just more muscle who want to rape or steal from them.

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        51 month ago

        In a democracy you give your vote and have no say afterwards.

        You’re restricting democracy to mean representative democracy?

    • 🕸️ Pip 🕷️
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      61 month ago

      It could be? Being a democracy or using democracy as a tool for decision making doesn’t mean it has to happen through government. If you’ve ever made a decision with a friend group via popular vote, does that make you a government? Or did you exercise authority over your friends when they all agreed popular vote was okay to decide where to eat out? I wager neither

      And fyi, you’re thinking of a representative democracy, which is rarely ever truly fair, especially considering the scale it’s supposedly applied to.