Questions for Anarchists:
How do you address infrastructure projects? Who makes sure the roads are paved?
How do you deal with international threats? Why wouldn't a neighboring country simply annex your territory?
How do you deal with a significant departure from human behavioral norms, like a serial killer?
I would love to live in a world without rulers but I don't want to live in a world without rules.
Kyle Montanio
in reply to Ω 🌍 Gus Posey • • •I'm not quite an anarchist, and haven't done the necessary reading/thought to answer all of this. But most of it comes down to decentalization of authority, rather than the removal of power structures entirely.
Things like community policing, rather than a centralized police force to deal with crime. And collectives to create industry and infrastructure.
The Spanish Civil War is a good case study of how anarchists organize to complete state-level goals:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarch…
overview of anarchism in Spain
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)skippy
in reply to Ω 🌍 Gus Posey • • •Ω 🌍 Gus Posey
in reply to skippy • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Ω 🌍 Gus Posey • •@Ω 🌍 Gus Posey @skippy I think en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Ig… by Ada Palmer could be a good book to read about a planet-wide society that runs on some anarchist principles, but is also very much not made of anarchists (except for a small minority).
Fiction, science fiction, too, not a howto guide on how to build an anarchist society, but a thought-provoking read nonetheless.
(one important principle is that anybody is free to choose freely what set of rules they want to follow and be protected by, other than a few basic rules that manage the relationship between people who choose different kinds of rules (and another few basic rules that are internally historically significant / externally important to the plot))
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