I consider myself an anarcho-pragmatist. It would be nice not to have any rulers or an hierarchy. But I also know people well enough to know that unless we defer any decision making to a supercomputer everyone trusts, we're going to need some form of societal structure.
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No one will unanimously trust a computer model. People will try to undermine and destroy it. So, the question would then be, how do you stop that? And suddenly you’re not really talking about anarchy. The computer will need to enforce its existence through violence.
Anarchy is the worst a society can devolve into.
And people who believe that certain anarchy "models" can work, know nothing about the psychology of larger groups.
When large groups of people need to live together there needs to be structure and rules that must be respected, and the rules need to be upheld by a governing body.
The best way we have to form that governing body is democracy.
I don't disagree... But that's not how society operates historically or currently.
Closest we ever came to that us post ww2 era in some countries.
It has regressed into the circus we got eight now since then.
Life is untenable for the majority already, it will get worse.
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I think liberals don't even know what it means, but insist their opinions on it need to be heard anyways, because all opinions are valid, right?
- What led to the Haymarket Massacre, which might have been the main catalyst behind the 8-hour workday... So I cannot hate it out of principle
- Seems reasonable but I don't know how to actually implement it
- For some reason is more associated with Anarcho-Capitalism rather than the other variants, which I thought was... Interesting
Honestly, I don't really understand what it is. I don't understand socialism, communism, hell I hardly understand capitalism and I'm living in it.
I know the "it's chaos" interpretation isn't really correct though
I thought it was quite cool when I was a teenager. Then I grew up.
Aka you heard about it, did no reading on theory and slowly the capitalist culture you lived in burned your brain down. That's what happens when you don't have any actual education about something.
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Nestor Makhno and his Makhnovists weren't perfect but I think its probably the closest we're going to get to seeing a working anarchist society. It seemed like it worked for a short time.
Also note the mutial aid systems that spring up in the wake of some disasters could probably be considered temporary anarchist societies. Rebecca Solenit wrote a book about this but I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet. A Paradise Built in Hell. I hear its good but I can't say that with firsthand knowledge
There are already people living this lifestyle, unfortunately one only has the choice if you have lots of money.
Lots of money? Do you actually know any anarchists? Living in communal squat houses and dumpster diving for food is the lifestyle that comes to mind for me.
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