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  • Lots of reasons people can be at peace and still hate one another. Look around the world there are tons of examples. I’m not saying we’re best buds, just not actively killing each other. Hell, the existence of another nearby hostile power is a classic way this happens, which perfectly matches the hypothetical.

    I personally think the idea of an instantaneous global revolution is totally ridiculous so I don’t find this answer very compelling. Even if global anarchy is achieved which is not a certain thing, there will be a period of transition, and some regions will transition faster than others.



  • This has been one of the anarchic ideas I have questions about.

    Let’s say we have a burgeoning anarchic society. We’ve solved issues with intracommunity violence, production, and distribution. We’ve managed to negotiate peace with neighboring states so they aren’t a direct threat anymore. It’s the anarchist paradise we always wanted and things are going great.

    However, one of these non-hostile states nearby gets involved in a war with another state. They end up losing and things get bad. Millions of refugees end up fleeing into the anarchist territory, far more than can easily be accommodated with existing systems. Furthermore, most of these people have been indoctrinated into thinking anarchists are violent, dangerous weirdos and don’t have any interest in our new society. They just want to keep doing their authoritarian capitalism but in a place that isn’t on fire.

    I’m not saying borders are the best solution to this problem but it is clearly a problem that is possible or even likely to occur in the future. How would an anarchist society solve this issue? Isn’t there a danger that a wave of too many people with anti-anarchist ideology might risk the destruction of an anarchist society?






  • You can post separate comments and ask people to upvote the one they agree with, though there’s no way to restrict how people vote up and down and the exact vote tallies will vary depending on your instance due to the way federation works.

    If you want to have a very rigorous and well-controlled poll an external site may be the best solution, but for informal things the above may suffice.



  • True but it at least requires them to go through that process and can still inconvenience and intimidate people. Trump is capricious and unpredictable and there may be uncertainty as to whether such pardons will be granted, and even if they are, people could be arrested in the meantime.

    If there is a way to nail them with state charges then this would get around this although I would assume most of these activities primarily violate federal law and take place in the District which does not have the independence of a state, unfortunately.