• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Quite literally impossible to implement. Same as true “Libertarianism”. Can’t actually exist.

    Look at it this way. You and your neighbours want no government. No taxes. No laws. No “authority” telling you what to do and how to do it. Great!

    What happens when the road needs to be fixed? Do you fix just the road in front of your house? Or do you negotiate with your neighbours for you all to pay a fair share to get the entire road done? Congratulations…you just invented government.

    So now the road is getting done, but the people doing the work really don’t want to deal with every individual for every particular decision. It’s a much better idea to elect one person to do the communicating. Congratulations…you just invented civics and beaurocracy

    This person that you all agreed to handle all of this stuff doesn’t have time anymore to support himself or his family because he’s dealing with your shit, so he demands that each of you pay an amount to keep in able to feed himself while he administrates your “anarchic society.” Congratulations…you just invented taxes

    Replace “roads” with literally anything else in a community and the end result is the same. Both Libertarians and Anarchists are fucking morons.

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      Anarchism isn’t “no government”. I don’t think your larger assessment is incorrect in that anarchism is utopian in nature and unrealistic on a larger scale but your understanding of the ideology is flawed.

    • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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      2 hours ago

      You don’t know what anarchism is or what it means and are arguing with a strawman.

      anarchism means no rulers, not no rules

      we would just use direct democracy for our government

      we don’t even want no government, we want no state, those are different things

      can you point to an anarchist philosopher who believes the nonsense you argued against?