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ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Everybody’s hooked on communism.
But what about anarchism?
Anarchy only helps those privileged enough to have the means to defend what they have with violence.
Anarchy means the sick, disabled, poor, minorities, etc are thrown to the wolves, and expected to defend themselves with less capability and resources than the majority.
Sure, you might argue family units or communities might band together and take care of each other, but they probably need some rules to make that equitable since not everyone will agree, and- oops we made government again.
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That’s not how anarchism works.
But it is kind of how humans work.
Then, with that logic, none of the social systems work whether it’s capitalism, communism, anarchism, socialism, etc.
I have visited wikipedia. So you mean the anarchy that is “without hierarchy or authority” but not complete chaos?
I guess I’m unclear how you manage that without it devolving into chaos though. Like corporations constantly prove that if we don’t have a law against it they’d just sell humans. I dunno how you manage to make an equitable society without some kind of rules and enforcement of said rules, when there will always be bad actors.
It’s a more complex concept than I assumed, but I struggle to conceptualize what that kind of system actually looks like.
Yes. Sort of.
To be honest, I think even I need more education on the topic. But I think it’s more like societies form organically. People pick roles and contribute to society as needed instead of doing a job just because you need to pay the rent.
And it doesn’t mean there’s an absence of rules or laws. And commerce would still function but there would be a specific need for it. And it wouldn’t be just for profit. So that removed a lot of incentive to do bad things.
Idealistic and naive, in my view. Anarchists have never explained how we get from here to the global classless, stateless, moneyless society that both communists and anarchists wish to achieve, given the context of capitalist power and reaction — at least no explanation that makes sense to me.
I would be happy to be proven wrong though, as I truly believe that both groups want the same outcome.
That’s fair
The two are not mutually exclusive
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Anarchism is an assured destruction of the Social Contract. People, without guidance, are more horrible.
decolo@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You know anarchism doesn’t just mean ‘anything goes’, right?
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[citation needed]
5wim@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
“No rulers” doesn’t mean “no rules.”
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Decades of anthropological evidence say otherwise. Read Graeber’s works on the subject. They are incredibly enlightening.