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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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JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s not how anarchism works.

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- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  But it is kind of how humans work.
  
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  - ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Then, with that logic, none of the social systems work whether it’s capitalism, communism, anarchism, socialism, etc.
    
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- Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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.
    
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