RE: I've Made a Video about Anarchism
October 20, 2019 at 11:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2019 at 11:38 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 20, 2019 at 11:13 pm)Athene Wrote:(October 20, 2019 at 10:49 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: How does a community militia stamp out its own power grab?
Anything that can stamp out a power grab can grab power.
Why would you automatically assume that any and all power grabs would come from a militia, when presumably virtually everyone in society would be armed?
Seems to me that militia members wouldn't be any more inclined to long for a reestablishment of strict governance than any other group of yahoos--perhaps even less likely. Actually, I would think that militia members would be more likely to value the core principles of anarchy and value "Muh freedom!" more than anyone else.
The whole Everyone being armed, second-amendment-being-protection-against-organized-tyranny is fundamentally laughable. An armed but relatively untrained and unorganized mob tends to self-eliminate through klutzy fratricide if its arms are called upon. An organized and even partially trained armed organization would be a match for an unorganized and untrained armed mob many times its own size.
So in the anarchic world, a thinking person with a mind for power grab will focus on creating or coopting the only organized armed body in its community.