I’m politically agnostic and have moved from a slightly conservative stance to a vastly more progressive stance (european). i still dont get the more niche things like tankies and anarchists at this point but I would like to, without spending 10 hours reading endless manifests (which do have merit, no doubt, but still).

Can someone explain to me why anarchy isnt the guy (or gal, or gang, or entity) with the bigger stick making the rules?

  • h14h@midwest.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Anarchists develop structures and agreements that discourage concentration of power

    MLMs believe that they must use the state, capitalism, and by extension coercive control

    Are these not different words for the same fundamental concepts?

    I fail to see how “the state” and “capitalism” aren’t just a more developed form of “structures” and “agreements”. And if the community decides punishment is an appropriate response to breaking an “agreement”, how is that any different from “coercive control”?

    And if you’re community gets large enough (say even like a couple hundred people), how are any decisions gonna get made even remotely efficiently?

    Feel like you’re a hop skip and a jump from a representative democracy. And as soon as bartering becomes too inconvenient, I’m sure a new “agreement” still be made to use some proxy as a form of current and boom now you’ve got capitalism too.