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To be fair to anarchists, it extremely often failed because of outside forces being violent towards them. Nothing in anarchy is inherently doomed to failure, an

To be fair to anarchists, it extremely often failed because of outside forces being violent towards them. Nothing in anarchy is inherently doomed to failure, and is a better demonstration of democracy than anything we have currently. (Because if there's anything an anarchist loves more than voting, it's one more voting round). Calling cryptocurrencies "anarchist" is walking on the corpse of actual anarchists and taking a big, steaming shit on them. Anarcho-capitalists have nothing to do with anarchy and are just kids whose bedtime reading was, regrettably, Ayn Rand.

rightbyte 4y ago
I guess people think Mad Max rather than "everything is run by tiny councils" when they think about anarchists.
- lern_too_spel 4y ago
  Anarchy is defined as absence of government and authority, with unlimited personal freedom as a consequence. This is fine if you're living alone, but in groups, you have unbounded externalities. Tiny councils are tiny governments.
  - ohgodplsno 4y ago
    If you let your own ignorance define anarchy, sure. Anarchists simply want every single thing to be voted on by the people, whether through referendum or randomly picked representatives. Anarchists agree that there should be governing bodies (merely that they shouldn't be the ones we have right now, and that they should be more representative and prevent the formation of a political class) and that authority should also be granted by these governing bodies _and_ revokable by the same. Hence, there is nothing an anarchist loves more than voting. It does not prevent living in groups, just that there are no leaders in that group. By saying it is defined as an absence of government and authority, you're either thinking of ancaps (which are a bad right wing joke made up of said Ayn Rand readers), or dogshit propaganda fed to you. Read a bit.
    - lern_too_spel 4y ago
      > Read a bit. Reading a bit: 1 a : absence of government 2 a : absence or denial of any authority or established order Merriam Webster Redefining anarchy to mean democratic government is a new one.

rightbyte 4y ago

I guess people think Mad Max rather than "everything is run by tiny councils" when they think about anarchists.

lern_too_spel 4y ago
Anarchy is defined as absence of government and authority, with unlimited personal freedom as a consequence. This is fine if you're living alone, but in groups, you have unbounded externalities. Tiny councils are tiny governments.
- ohgodplsno 4y ago
  If you let your own ignorance define anarchy, sure. Anarchists simply want every single thing to be voted on by the people, whether through referendum or randomly picked representatives. Anarchists agree that there should be governing bodies (merely that they shouldn't be the ones we have right now, and that they should be more representative and prevent the formation of a political class) and that authority should also be granted by these governing bodies _and_ revokable by the same. Hence, there is nothing an anarchist loves more than voting. It does not prevent living in groups, just that there are no leaders in that group. By saying it is defined as an absence of government and authority, you're either thinking of ancaps (which are a bad right wing joke made up of said Ayn Rand readers), or dogshit propaganda fed to you. Read a bit.
  - lern_too_spel 4y ago
    > Read a bit. Reading a bit: 1 a : absence of government 2 a : absence or denial of any authority or established order Merriam Webster Redefining anarchy to mean democratic government is a new one.