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Hierarchies are necessary for complex systems to function. The way that it is used as a boogeyword by ideologues is exhausting.
by ghostcluster 9y ago
Hierarchies are necessary for complex systems to function. The way that it is used as a boogeyword by ideologues is exhausting.
- ixtli 9y agoI'm not sure why this comment was downvoted. I read it as a valid criticism of anti-state discourse. While I'm amenable to quite a bit of left-libertarian philosophy/ideology, I agree from lived experience that hard problems require complex systems to solve them EVEN IF the solutions themselves are simple!
- MaysonL 9y agoTrue, but not hierarchies of control over people's lives.
- ghostcluster 9y agoSo you don't believe in the legal system?
- kiliantics 9y agoWhat anarchists are really worried about is "nonconsensual hierarchies". They are definitely necessary sometimes and people will often choose to participate in a hierarchy when they see its usefulness. Anarchists have done this a lot historically, like in the Spanish civil war, there were military hierarchies among the anarchists. The problem in most societies is that a lot of the hierarchies, particularly the very important ones for survival and day to day life, are completely forced upon us.