Comment on What do you think of anarchism?
jrs100000@lemmy.world 2 days agoIt seems like a pretty good reason to exclude them, considering the criticism being discuss was specifically that they would inevitably decay in to a “might makes right” situation. Communities existing in a situation where police and courts would prevent someone from taking over by force disqualifies them from disproving this hypothesis.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
there simply isn’t evidence of some casual mechanism by anarchist societies must decay. their hypothesis can’t be proven. I didn’t even know how it could be tested.
hisao@ani.social 2 days ago
Why this mechanism has to be casual? Nation-states exist, just imagine existing state like Russia, China or America deciding to take over your anarchist society.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
they could kill everyone in any society they decide to invade. this isn’t an indictment of anarchism.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
the hypothesis was decay, not invasion.
jrs100000@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m not sure what you want exactly. Its pretty hard to prove a negative, but that does not make the inverse true.