Comment on How would an anarchist society work?

zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s democracy, not anarchy.

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why not both?

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    • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Indeed. Democracy does not exclude anarchy and in the case of the UN it’s a voluntary union, each member is free to not participate and ignore the decisions made by rest of the union. People often criticize the UN as having little authority - that’s because it’s anarchistic in nature.

      If there is a point to my example it is that society is a patchwork of ideologies, there is no “pure capitalist” society just as there is no “pure anarchistic” society. So to say one ideology does not work as totalitarian society is different then saying it does not work at all.

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      • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Fair point

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The UN routinely has councils and vetos given to a select few.

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• calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The UN is not a society. There are many groups without a leader. But when talking about anarchism, people usually mean anarchist society.

  That’s like saying FAANG is anarchism, because they talk among themselves without there being a leader.

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