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> this is anarchy working well No, this is anomie (see Wikipedia). Anarchy is the absence of domination/authority, not lawlessness and rule of the strongest.
by southerntofu 6y ago
> this is anarchy working well
No, this is anomie (see Wikipedia). Anarchy is the absence of domination/authority, not lawlessness and rule of the strongest.
Also, as an anarchist, it makes me laugh to read people claiming crypto-coins are supposedly anarchist. Who controls the code? Who controls the network? Power is not as distributed as it appears. Moreover, one could argue the entire concept of money is antithetic to anarchism.
- igorkraw 6y agoWhile I agree on you that crypto isn't Anarchy, I feel that Proudhons labor vouchers aren't much different from money. Money is just tokens of debt, be it if gratitude or other, if a group uses them to keep track of that debt it's not inherently evil
- 7sidedmarble 6y agoUhhh, correct me if I'm wrong but the big difference is labor vouches are used up when you 'spend' them, so they can't be accumulated as capital. Also Proudhon never talked about them, it was someone else In his circle. Proudhon espoused something called mutual credit I believe.
- igorkraw 6y agoI have it all mixed up in my head tbh, you are right. Mutual credit is an even more explicit money mechanism though
- golergka 6y ago> Who controls the code? Who controls the network? People who voluntarily put their trust and money in it.