• db0OP
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    32 months ago

    The community will band against the dictator as much as the thief

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        2 months ago

        Their “blood thirst” of not wanting thieves and murderers in their society? You realize that our current society is orders more “blood thirsty” than what we describe but only that you hide the violence through the police and the brutal wars and genocides against other nations?

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          You’re at the magical thinking “And then of course we will all…” crutch that a lot of philosophies lean on

          Capitalism: We’ll deregulate and open the market to everyone, and then there will be “perfect competition” in a “free market”

          Communism: We have state socialism until society is prepared, and then transition to communism

          Anarchism: We won’t have a central authority to prevent aggression, obviously we will work together as mutual interest aligns. And 100% no roving bands of raiders or warlords will ever ruin our society!

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            22 months ago

            We won’t have a central authority to prevent aggression, obviously we will work together as mutual interest aligns.

            Yes, by definition that’s how anarchism works. If if wasn’t like this, it wouldn’t be anarchism. Not sure why this is a difficult concept to handle.

            And 100% no roving bands of raiders or warlords will ever ruin our society!

            Nobody said that external dangers are not a potential issue, but the plan is to oppose them. Not a difficult concept to grasp either.

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              62 months ago

              I have fringe anarcho-syndicalist politics, I understand the theory. I also understand that nothing exists in a vacuum, and while our happy anarchy-commune/whatever of 3,000 aligned people may build mutual aid tranquillity in our area, others may not. And those others may choose banditry, and your stuff instead of working for food.

              So our commune/syndicate/etc form a defensive structure/organization to stop/prevent them - you just created a military/police class of “most equals”. Who will need a command structure for doing the ‘gun/bat meet aggressor’ functions, and some kind of special remit from the community. Or we say no dedicated force and the classes it brings, and use the irregulars/militia model instead. Which has so many issues on so many different aspects that’s it’s not worth me typing out.

              Ffs go read Hobbes’ Leviathan