I guess similarly, how do you actually deal with the "Individual people are not actually naturally equal in their capacities", problem?

Are these even questions that people who are Anarchists care about, or what?

I'm genuinely not trying to start a "thing" here, these are just questions that I feel like I've honestly just never got substantive answers on regarding Left-Anarchist political philosophy.

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That sounds like it would work in a small circle, but how would this play out on a hypothetical large anarchist territory? Would you have some sort of watchdog institutions?

      • space_comrade [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        How do you deal with people that live in an anarchist territory but don't subscribe to an anarchist ideology?

        It seems to me anarchism can only truly work when everybody is a dedicated anarchist, which is IMO unreasonable to expect right after a revolution.

          • space_comrade [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Sure, but how does the revolution get done without political repression of other ideologies? And if you think that's necessary how would exactly an anarchist revolution be different than a marxist one?

            • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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              2 years ago

              Marxists recognize that the prevalence and dominance of ideologies is heavily influenced by material conditions.

              The anarchist contribution to this is suggesting that reactionary ideologies are not very stable, take a lot of resources and logistics to uphold, and could be disrupted more easily.

              Expropriated capitalists are not much of a threat; you can't raise an army without capital. I will concede that foreign powers are still a threat that anarchists have not come up with as solid of an answer to.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        I'm gonna invoke the bees again.

        Of course it isn't a solution that you put in place and the format takes care of everything; you need people to become accustomed to the horizontal power structure.

        @space_comrade

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      In a large territory you're talking about macro-social trends, and I don't know if "demagoguery", "interpersonal prejudice", and "social cliques" have the same implications in that context.