• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    So long as the local group autonomy is still respected that can work fine in theory. Once you start stripping groups of autonomy to make a beauracratic monster, you’ve lost the anarchism plot. A lot harder in practice to have a massive armed org that values that autonomy. Most of the time local groups will be linked to other groups. Just by group consensus, not by necessity because of course that too would not be anarchism.

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      Well, yeah. Anarchism loses wars to bureaucracy. That was settled in 50 BC with the Gallic Wars.

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        Im no historian but I think we’ve made some headway in technology that allows for quicker longer distance organization in the past 2000 years.

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          That gives even greater advantage to centralized bureaucracy. 2000 years ago armies could be independent weeks before anyone back in Rome knew what happened.

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      5 days ago

      Sounds like a theoretical Libertarian trying to raise an army. Do you hand a copy of the NAP to just the volunteers or also to those you fight?

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        If you cant tell anarchism from libertarianism, theres no intelectual basis to continue this conversation on. Which would explain why you set up a strawman with your second sentence.

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          5 days ago

          You got me, it seems I have not educated myself thoroughly enough.

          Really though, if only the enlightened can see the light then it seems like it’s just an academic exercise or trolling people to advocate for ineffectual fringe theory.

          You may be right, but also powerless.