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What is the proposed alternative to governments? Some Religious utopia?
by mint2 2y ago
What is the proposed alternative to governments? Some Religious utopia?
- michaelhoney 2y agoWell, some governments are less ethical than others, as the US is about to find out
- EasyMark 2y agoUS citizens are about to find out that it’s important to know something about the philosophy of the people they vote for. When the basic services dry up, roads fill with potholes, no more cheap labor is to be found, and the checks stop arriving in the mail and instead go to corporations and oligarchs they will have learned their lesson. Hopefully it will not be too late.
- ben_w 2y agoAnarchy. There are many flavours of it, a former partner believes in a communist flavour that abolishes money, I used to know someone else who wanted anarcho-capitalism. I'm not convinced any are stable, I think organised groups weild power much more effectively and in so doing sieze power from any attempt at anarchy — which is a shame because more personal freedom is also appealing.
- baq 2y agoYeah I agree: anarchy is either law of the jungle or tyranny, and people faced with that choice pick tyranny, either themselves or with… help.
- mint2 2y agoI’m going to have say any flavor of anarchy falls under religious utopia. most seem to require utopian ideals like do no harm principles. Too bad there’s not a real life example of any alternative people can point to. Wonder why that is, perhaps it’s because they are only possible in dreams.
- ben_w 2y agoUtopia yes, not clear why it would need to be specifically of the religious kind, as "Christian anarchism" is simply yet another possible kind of anarchism so far as I can tell — religion does not seem to be an innate requirement for all of the other varieties.
- petre 2y agoI've read about the Russian Revolution and changed my mind. Anarchy was exploited by the Bolshevics to gain power then pourge all of their opponents.
- mindcrime 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Edward_Konkin_III#Agorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Edward_Konkin_III#Agori... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualist_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualist_anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
- EasyMark 2y agoAnarchist based “governments” offer no solution other than a some odd years of rough living and then being invaded by a superior military force and put under a dictatorship.