Not looking for debate, more looking for a way to explain to lib friends who are getting their feet wet with socialism. Any overview of what society would look like in a stateless classless sense?
Not looking for debate, more looking for a way to explain to lib friends who are getting their feet wet with socialism. Any overview of what society would look like in a stateless classless sense?
Insofar as decisions about society need to be made, the people as a whole have the right to make them.
In openly undemocratic states, this right is denied outright.
In liberal democracies, this right is, in theory, surrendered to the state as part of a social contract. In practice, it is denied outright.
Without a state, it is still possible to have a form of organization that does any of the important functions usually fulfilled by states, but that organization is unlike a state in that it does not hold any power independent of the will of the people, not even by asking them to surrender it consensually.