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>Won’t the state just reemerge over time? Most of the examples cited in this book no longer exist, and some only lasted a few years. The stateless societies an
by baxtr 4y ago
>Won’t the state just reemerge over time?
Most of the examples cited in this book no longer exist, and some only lasted a few years. The stateless societies and social experiments were mostly conquered by imperialist powers or repressed by states.
So even if it worked, it will work only for a limited time.
- olalonde 4y agoLibertarianism is close to anarchism except for army, police and law.
- p4bl0 4y agoNo it's absolutely not. Libertarianism is similar to anarcho-capitalism which itself has mostly nothing in common with anarchism. Promoting individual freedom over everything else including when it enables exploitation of others by negating the existence of social classes and other forms of domination because everything can be contracted in a free market has literally nothing to do with anarchism, it's even hard to come up with something that could be farther.
- olalonde 4y ago> enables exploitation of others What? Libertarianism is explicitly against exploitation. Its core principles are non-aggression and voluntary association. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
- int_19h 4y ago"Libertarian" is what anarchists - of the socialist variety - originally called themselves. And many still continue to do so, sometimes with qualifications that became necessary because the economic right tried to appropriate the term. Please don't assist them in furthering that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism
- slim 4y agothat's the theory of TAZ