RE: I've Made a Video about Anarchism
October 20, 2019 at 10:49 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2019 at 10:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 20, 2019 at 10:39 pm)Athene Wrote:(October 20, 2019 at 8:35 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: "structured anarchism"
I'm interested in what structure anarchism has. To me anarchism is just the voluntary abolition of government. I don't think of violent connotations although I understand that with the close proximity to the punk movement that some do see it that way. I just think that if we could be successful in disbanding the government that something would rise in its place due to a power vacuum. Thaq wants apples.
To my understanding, structured anarchism more or less involves self-governance at a community level, which would require a serious degree of personal responsibility and civic-mindedness.
I suppose that community militias could be quite capable of stamping out small/localized power grabs. It seems that handling broader challenges though, would require organization, oversight, and management of resources on a scale that would come remarkably close to resembling.... dare I say....government? Lol.
I can't imagine a nation of multiple anarchist communities fending off a significant foreign threat--at least not with a purist approach to anarchism.
Perhaps I'm just limited in my thinking on the matter though.
How does a community militia stamp out its own power grab?
Anything that can stamp out a power grab can grab power. Many militia amongst many small self-governing communities would seem a particularly unstable system in which effective power grab anywhere would have a good chance of quickly snowballing and soon irresistibly subsume all the other communities.