I mean, yeah, anarchism doesnt automatically imply rugged individualism, the most core aspect of all forms of anarchism is the distribution of power and reduction/elimination of unjust hierarchies. Doesn’t mean leadership and structure can’t form. People who are good at organizing and logistics and managing complex systems still have a place in an anarchist society.
Like in Star Trek, the episode Allegiance, the bridge crew continued to follow orders of the body swapped Captain Picard until things felt too… off… and orders became nonsensical then they basically just refused to comply knowing something was wrong. They clearly operated within a heirarchy of command, but as soon as the legitimacy of command came into question, tne bridge crew was ready to act to remove someone questionable from power and its framed as a good thing.
I’ll admit Starfleet clearly has some problems, things like Section 31 existing, and clearly has a badmiral problem (which I think is a structural problem of once you reach the pinnacle of star fleet and become an admiral there is nothing aspirational left to do other than push ethical boundaries.) But this still an example of a just hierarchy and the ability to correct and remove unjust hierarchy.
It implies the absence of hierarchy, so you can’t be subject to any law or instruction you don’t personally agree to. That’s not any kind of democracy, where everyone is subject (up to and including by threat of violence) to the law that the majority vote for.
I don’t know what’s up with people sanewashing anarchism. It’s pretty extreme - you can just not subscribe to it as an ideology!
I mean, yeah, anarchism doesnt automatically imply rugged individualism, the most core aspect of all forms of anarchism is the distribution of power and reduction/elimination of unjust hierarchies. Doesn’t mean leadership and structure can’t form. People who are good at organizing and logistics and managing complex systems still have a place in an anarchist society.
Like in Star Trek, the episode Allegiance, the bridge crew continued to follow orders of the body swapped Captain Picard until things felt too… off… and orders became nonsensical then they basically just refused to comply knowing something was wrong. They clearly operated within a heirarchy of command, but as soon as the legitimacy of command came into question, tne bridge crew was ready to act to remove someone questionable from power and its framed as a good thing.
I’ll admit Starfleet clearly has some problems, things like Section 31 existing, and clearly has a badmiral problem (which I think is a structural problem of once you reach the pinnacle of star fleet and become an admiral there is nothing aspirational left to do other than push ethical boundaries.) But this still an example of a just hierarchy and the ability to correct and remove unjust hierarchy.
It implies the absence of hierarchy, so you can’t be subject to any law or instruction you don’t personally agree to. That’s not any kind of democracy, where everyone is subject (up to and including by threat of violence) to the law that the majority vote for.
I don’t know what’s up with people sanewashing anarchism. It’s pretty extreme - you can just not subscribe to it as an ideology!