• DocCrankenstein@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Plenty if you study history and anthropology. How do you think humans lived for millenia before the invention of currency? You do realize thousands of years separate that from advent of trade and long after we settled down to form permanent communities?

          • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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            1 year ago

            Nonsense. There is no returning to small-scale egalitarian societies. Large-scale societies are a trap; once you embrace them, you can never go back apart from in extreme isolation. Spend even 5 minutes thinking seriously about it and you will see why it's a pipe dream.

            • DocCrankenstein@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              You think there is no authority in anarchist government? Have you ever read about horizontal-democracies?

              Anarchist just means "against coercive authorities" namely "centralized and hierarchical governance"

              You realize the fediverse that creates lemmy is an anarchist structure right?

              • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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                1 year ago

                Generally anarchism does reject the idea of authority wholesale whilst also having no historical basis for it. Those societies were clearly in a very different place. I suggest you look into dialects as they will provide comprehensive explanations as to authority and its foundations (and why there are different conditions then than now) especially seeing as they fully had “coercive” authority. Now as to what non-coercive authority is, I don’t think even the anarchists have cracked that one

      • MasterNerd@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        People who downvoted you clearly aren't paying attention to what's happening in Italy and Germany to a lesser extent

        • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Hungary and Turkey all have severe issues with fascism right now

          • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            all have severe issues with fascism right now

            It's not an issue... fascism is a feature of classical liberal nation states - not a flaw.

              • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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                1 year ago

                Really? Tell that to all the "liberal" regimes that enabled fascists when said liberals couldn't keep working-class revolt in check... Weimar Germany literally did that to crush the "Spartacist" revolt after WW1.

                There's a saying amongst leftists - you can't have a harvest of fascism without liberals loosening the ground for it first. Fascism is not some "aberration" of the classical liberal nation state and it never was.