Could a community decide to leave anarchism? Sure. Would that also likely mean dire consequences, being surrounded by other free communes that have no interest in tyranny and recognize it as an existantial threat? Yes. Yes it would.
Yes absolutely, but again there would be consequences for doing this if your rules are too far outside what most consider acceptable.
No minimum. Nothing indicates that all federations will accept all communes, so each federation could and likely would set their own minimums.
If you live alone and have no tangible effect on anyone else, sure.
Christopher Taylor
What incentive would there be for people in a stateless society to tolerate your existence if you behave this way?
If anything, the state actually minimizes the consequences of being a dangerous idiot. It provides a framework for people like that to participate in the economy and governance of a population that would not associate with them otherwise.
Liam Cook
How hierarchical does a workplace have to be for it to be considered capitalist? The subjectivity of the required answer makes hierarchy/centralization a meaningless qualifier, but it does serve anarchists well in that it allows you to define capitalism and socialism on a case-by-case basis as you see fit.
A rich claim coming from someone openly parading his ignorance of relations of production.
You people are so cringe-worthy. I remember some days ago I said my ideal state would resemble classical Athenian democracy, and an anarchist called my proposal a federation. As if Athens was a fucking communal federation. To call your centralization=exploitation analysis of what you call capitalism and a state shallow would be the understatement of the century.
Josiah Nelson
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Ian Allen
But if somebody attempts to break into my house I can call my local police who can come to protect me, something that has happened many times in the past in my neighborhood. In an Anarchist society no such security would exist.
Jeremiah Stewart
You really shouldn't have replied, every time you guys try to engage with Marxists you just discredit yourselves further. What I was saying is that going by the typical anarchist definition of a socialist firm, which is nothing more than worker control your distinction between socialism and capitalism becomes subjective as soon as somebody asks how much worker control you're referring to. That is unless even a modest amount of worker control makes a firm socialist. If so, then you must believe USSR was socialist because it had elections.
Eli Williams
How would elected officials "representing" the proletariat be the same as giving them control?
Would it be the same if we were allowed to democratically elect the bourgeois who owns the business?
Kayden Jackson
No of course, because Athens was a single commune under a single face-to-face legal assembly. The delian league, of which athens was a member, is a pretty clear example of a non-hierarchal confederation or coalition. If you think this is the same as a unitary state, then your definition of a state is so arbitrary that it's meaningless for any kind of political analysis.
Adrian Campbell
That's pretty easy. No class antagonism. Thus full worker-control.
Connor Nelson
Yeah, you'd have to use violence to defend yourself instead of outsourcing it to other people.
