• @ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world
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    211 year ago

    You ever been in a room where one psychotic person seems to set the whole tone? That’s the world without governments. Anarchy inevitably leads to misery, so let’s come up with the best government we can.

    • janAkali
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      301 year ago

      I thought about this for some time. An anarchy would always collapse into governed state.

      First, imagine the perfect scenario where there no authority and world is just a lot of tiny city-sized communities. It would take just a single bad actor to form a state, start invading neighboring communities and growing in power. In response - other communities would be forced to group into increasingly bigger states to have a chance to oppose influence from bigger/richer states.

      This thought experiment also works if violent takeover is replaced by economic one. Think of cartels and monopolies.

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        1 year ago

        Until they hit another group that is either bigger or stronger and opposed to their way of doing shit. Really no different than how shit works now. Because you certainly wouldn’t be free to murder and steal and rape and enslave or whatnot even in an anarchistic society; people who don’t want you doing that shit would stop you or punish you.

        • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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          21 year ago

          And some of those groups would form some ways to manage shit and conduct wars, leading us probably back to governments.

      • If you looked up on this subject first, you would know that humans where anarchist for 95% of our existence. There is a good youtube channel “What is politics?” that talks about this. Even today, there are anarchist communities and there where in the past in the modern world, some of them are still going on, some of them where destroyed by outside force, some of them dissolved into state power.

      • @ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world
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        101 year ago

        No where on earth has anarchy, the places that have it for a few days spontaneously develop order through gangs, warlords, or the intervention of more stable societies

            • It supports the case that it can work. I never made an argument that it always works forever. There are failed attempts, but the cause of their failure is also very important. It is often claimed that somehow, internally, anarchism can not work within a country, while usually the reason anarchisam is destroyed is due to outside invasion or interference. It is simply the case, that anarchist are currently outnumbered, mostly due to opinions like this, that it can not work, so we should try it. If we get a critical mass of enough people, it would be the opposite, states would not be able to survive in a majority anarchistic World, as no one would need to surrender themselves to domination by rulers if they can easily find a better alternative.

    • This in not true at all. In all anarchist communities, equality is strictly enforced and anyone who tries to get a hold on power is either kicked out or murdered.