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True but also not true. Anarchism isn’t devoid of understanding of reality. Anarchisms goal as a broad social meme is to not allow an official body that coerc
by notso00 6y ago
True but also not true.
Anarchism isn’t devoid of understanding of reality.
Anarchisms goal as a broad social meme is to not allow an official body that coerces the public towards further erecting of tent pole power structures within society. Like we have a Constitution and abdicate legislative work to a mythical free market, where an Amazon size entity can manipulate the labor and retail markets on a whim.
It seeks to establish a tent pole hierarchy based, at least the sources I agree with offer it something like this, and then within that it’s local communal rules. No influencers from DC enforcing proper life in collusion with their moneyed brethren on this coast, regardless of how the masses would spend their time.
But yes at the top it’s a tent pole like any other.
Trying to set aside physics itself isn’t the goal of anarchism. Don’t be ridiculous.
Pre-Columbus America’s are often mythologized as all hippie, but they were probably the purest anarchist society we can study.
Those who lived by the water fished and maintained the coast. Those inland made tools for doing that.
And we’re talking communities that could rival them contemporary Europe.
How complex we all think it is to change when really it’s just doing away with European notion of proper social hierarchy always leading back to a council of especially wise men whose wisdom was point guns first.
It’s an emotional attitude like capitalism. Neither are laws of physics. Just a personal attitude that one will not be a social control freak nor kowtow to them.
We have none of the old problems of logistical distribution. Why do we their old tenets and rules?
- clairity 6y agobut ideologies, including anarchism, aren't roads to nirvana, they're far-flung points in a multidimensional mental space that map wholly inadequately to an even higher dimensional social space. they also systematically tend to lose nuance to fervor and identity. for instance, while i agree that institutions (concentrations of power) can be dangerous, they've also done some amazingly good (and bad) things because of the power they coalesce. anarchism would say dismantle (large) institutions, and capitalism (or whatever) would say build 'em bigger and bolder! but the practical says do both in a chaotic, highly dynamic system of competing and cooperating interests, reaching a dynamic balance that's hard to rationalize beforehand. yes, let's talk about these ideas and put forth observations and arguments, but in no case should be go all in on any one of them, including capitalism (which is also impractical in a pure, ideological form).
- srtjstjsj 6y agoWhy don't all anarchists live as free people in the woods? Is it perhaps because they enjoy food, shelters and medicine that anarchism cannot create?