I'd like to think that anarchism would work, but to me, it goes against all logic...

I'd like to think that anarchism would work, but to me, it goes against all logic. What's to stop someone from centralizing and conquering all the communes under Anarchy?
I also want to say that the point of this post is not saying "checkmate anarchist retards". I'm actually genuinely interrested and I'd love some tips on books to read on the subject.

You'd have to convince these communes to give up their political power to a central authority.

I think a superior military force could do that quite easily.

A superior military force that doesn't use the resources from any of the existing communes? Superior to, (let's say it's communes in germany), entities that have resources that the state of germany once had?

The other communes raising armies and beating his ass? It's 2017, we have instant communication. It's not like he'd be able to take out a dozen of them and build up his forces before anyone else would notice.

Let's say a commune decides to become an empire. It then conquers the surrounding communes slowly, growing stronger and stronger. How could this be stopped in any way in a de-centralized society?

The other communes band together and kill him.

Lets say it tries to conquer the surrounding communes slowly, and then gets its shit pushed in from all direction.

*every direction. I'm sorry.

I find it extremely unlikely that many communes would offer to risk their own lives to save, what probably woulden't be an imminent threat to them. Human psycology works in a way that people view threats differently depending on how soon they would be a problem, and how threatening they are right now. This is one of the reasons a lot of people deny or simply do not care about global warming even though it is a massive problem.

Well the people who committed the revolution (which is how the this hypothetical society started in the first place) wouldn't put up with shit that's counter-revolutionary.

If a society had the capacity to violently overthrow both the sate and capitalism I'm sure some start up imperialist larpers wouldn't be a problem.

What if, however unlikely it could be, the communes can't or won't fuck them up? What then?

Well then I guess they would win.

It's literaly impossible that this would not be a problem. There will always be power hungry imperialists, unless society and human belief is radicly changed, a change much greater then that under anarchy.

You can't really believe this, right?

I'm fairly sure you'll find that change with anarchism. Changes every aspect of our lives.

That would be a more reasonable answer. That imperialism would become such an alien concept under anarchy that nobody would even try to conquer. But I still really think that would be extremely hard to achieve since people would be able to be influanced by history and grand old empires.

People would be able to read about the empires and be inspired by the thought of that power, is what I ment.

Same way the Soviet Union ended up as a brutal dictatorship instead of a worker's paradise.

But what if, get this, A giant Raptor on a giant shark just fucking shooting nuclear lasers out of it's eyes and kills all the anarchists? What then huh?


Well a change in culture is needed for a anarchist society. I could cheat and just say that anarchism is so damn good that joining micro-empires isn't going to be on people's mind.

At the end of the day anything is possible and every type of society has fallen to external and internal threats from Imperial empires to socialist states to anarchist societies.

You're just describing Nazi Germany. They wanted to expand, Other countries got together and fuck them.
The same would happen

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So the Roman Empire/Mongol Empire/British Empire were all pushed back and destroyed before conquering land?

Not related to my argument and is not a valid response to my argument.