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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Anarchism is when you pretend there are no bad actors and everyone will magically get along.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, Anarchism is one of the approaches one can take when we acknowledge that there are bad actors, and that there is no magic method to make everyone get along. If there were such magic, there would be no need for Anarchism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Explain please. Im being genuine here, not trying to be a dick

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Borrowing a passage from David Graeber:

"At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions."

Or phrased another way:

  • Humans have the capacity to be and to do good
  • Humans can also do terrible things
  • Hierarchical power structures can lead to harmful feedback loops where bad actors who gain power can continue to gain power
  • Even well intentioned people can slip into modes of unhealthy power dynamics
  • Thus building a truly equitable and just system requires ongoing work

If the question at hand is "bad actors exist. What should society do about them?", Anarchism as a school of thought is an attempt to answer that. It's not a solved problem, so Anarchism is far from the only possible answer to that question. For example, someone else might argue that an authoritarian government is the best way to solve the bad actor problem. Of course, I would disagree with this hypothetical person, but my point is that social movements like anarchism arise in response to some crisis, tension or problem in society — if society was working well for everyone and everyone got along, then anarchist thought would have never emerged. Whether you feel it's an effective answer to the problem is a different matter, but to properly analyse it, we need to recognise what anarchism is trying to do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Capitalism is where only one person has all the money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If we find and stake King Capitalist through his rotten heart, all his Capitalist Spawn will have their bank accounts empty and be returned to proletariat again 🙏

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Uh, is it? I've got my fair share of disputes with anarchists, but most of the ones I've spoken to acknowledge that there will still be bad actors and necessary restraints against those same folks.

Libertarian socialism is a synonym for anarchism; best not take anarchy in the colloquial sense. The point of anarchists is not no rule, but no rulers (ie no distinct, rigid hierarchy).