More important than opposition to the current system is the prefiguration of an anarchic one. So much online discourse is about attacking, a lot less is about building. I drew this to remind myself and others that confronting the state is only a part of the puzzle and building new systems without it is also important.
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This is an anarchist comm. We aren’t masquerading anything. We fight against all injustice: state, class, gender, sexuality. You know. Liberty for everyone equally.
K. The belief you can do that without community, and while centering self-interest, is classically childish anarchism.
But the memes here are good usually.
you might be confusing anarchism, the exact polar opposite of “without community” with the hyper-individualist flavor of american libertarianism
I don’t think you understand anarchism or what we mean when we say “without a state”. Hint: it’s the opposite from “without community, and while centering self-interest,”
How would a stateless society enforce contracts?
The way it worked for millennia in societies without a powerful state –
by shunning the contract breakers in your community.
Just extraordinarily naive.
What kind of contracts do you expecting within a moneyless system?
Are you for real? Do you think work will cease to exist? Monetary compensation isn’t the only thing that can be exchanged for work/art/etc.
We already have all sorts of contracts that don’t involve money directly. Marriage is a contract, and that wouldn’t just cease to exist.
People are selfish and greedy. There needs to be something to try to prevent and/or punish that. And literal force/violence is the only thing that can ever do it. Without it, there will always be people who abuse it.
So what happens is the person with the biggest gun/stick/army/etc. wins the dispute. Every time.
That’s how you end up with feudalism. How come libertarians always need to personally re-learn every mistake and lesson we’ve already learned the hard way? It is literally currently destroying the US government.
Learn some history and we don’t have to repeat the same mistakes again and again.
I understand how you believe it’ll work. I think it’s naive and unrealistic. Especially as a first system post-capitalism.
Cool story bro