It’s a dream. Capitalism would be great and completely valid without some greedy fuckers trying to get everything for themselves. Communism would work without some greedy fuckers trying to get everything for themselves. Anarchism would work without… You get the jist.
Our problem is not politics, it’s the human nature. No matter how many loving hippies there are, there are always going to be some people who try to exploit everything for their own good
Greedy fuckers are going to be making anything worse, but that only means that a complete utopia is impossible, not that all systems are going to be equally bad. Would you argue that the average absolute monarchy would have just as much abuse as your average liberal democracy?
Worrying about sealions on Lemmy in particular is just vanity since one really has the option to move on and ignore, or even block, at will. There is no way to force an answer, but it is perfectly okay to ask politely for one on a forum-like platform.
I’m not asking for sources, it’s a simple logic experiment with a look at history. A decentralized pacifist state is a power vacuum to certain people. We need at least the basic sketch of a larger state and acceptance of organized violence as a method to defend it.
Oh no, you misunderstand. They’re not giving you a choice. They aren’t proponents of democracy or any kind of representative government. You have to go from an Anarchic state to resisting an organized group while they are grabbing community leaders in the middle of the night and taking young men and women to work camps.
Well you’re already adding violence back in, but honestly that’s fine. I didn’t buy that pacifism would work anyways. It’s good to practice in regards to starting stuff, but you’d have to be ready to end stuff.
And honestly I hope what you’re saying would work but now you’ve got 3 more problems to solve. You’re starting from standing and they’re already going. So they’re going to have a head start in every way. You’re asking for volunteers and you have to deal with the bystander effect. They’re coercing people to fight for them. And third, you’ve now created an army and at least some infrastructure to support it. There’s more than a few times through history that the defending army just decided it was in charge now.
And just so you know where I’m coming from I’ve always thought you need at least some of the state institutions we have for a leftist state to work. Like education, enough military to make invading too costly, enough police to tackle organized crime, a tax system to provide help in disasters and keep infrastructure working, and a civil government to manage that infrastructure. Having it all in place negates the Dicky McDickerson problem from the outset. What we really need is to scale back a lot of what we have and to classify much of what people do to get rich as organized crime.
For the US specifically we’ll also need a plan to deal with Christian Conservatives who will attempt to institute a theocracy pretty much right away.
How do you keep an Anarchic Utopia then? What stops Dickie McDickerson and his thugs from establishing a state on top of you?
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Good luck with that. You may need to substitute all humans with robots.
It’s a dream. Capitalism would be great and completely valid without some greedy fuckers trying to get everything for themselves. Communism would work without some greedy fuckers trying to get everything for themselves. Anarchism would work without… You get the jist.
Our problem is not politics, it’s the human nature. No matter how many loving hippies there are, there are always going to be some people who try to exploit everything for their own good
Greedy fuckers are going to be making anything worse, but that only means that a complete utopia is impossible, not that all systems are going to be equally bad. Would you argue that the average absolute monarchy would have just as much abuse as your average liberal democracy?
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you’re wrong my comrade
Interestingly enough, that’s literally the solution for The Culture.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
Worrying about sealions on Lemmy in particular is just vanity since one really has the option to move on and ignore, or even block, at will. There is no way to force an answer, but it is perfectly okay to ask politely for one on a forum-like platform.
I’m not asking for sources, it’s a simple logic experiment with a look at history. A decentralized pacifist state is a power vacuum to certain people. We need at least the basic sketch of a larger state and acceptance of organized violence as a method to defend it.
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Oh no, you misunderstand. They’re not giving you a choice. They aren’t proponents of democracy or any kind of representative government. You have to go from an Anarchic state to resisting an organized group while they are grabbing community leaders in the middle of the night and taking young men and women to work camps.
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Well you’re already adding violence back in, but honestly that’s fine. I didn’t buy that pacifism would work anyways. It’s good to practice in regards to starting stuff, but you’d have to be ready to end stuff.
And honestly I hope what you’re saying would work but now you’ve got 3 more problems to solve. You’re starting from standing and they’re already going. So they’re going to have a head start in every way. You’re asking for volunteers and you have to deal with the bystander effect. They’re coercing people to fight for them. And third, you’ve now created an army and at least some infrastructure to support it. There’s more than a few times through history that the defending army just decided it was in charge now.
And just so you know where I’m coming from I’ve always thought you need at least some of the state institutions we have for a leftist state to work. Like education, enough military to make invading too costly, enough police to tackle organized crime, a tax system to provide help in disasters and keep infrastructure working, and a civil government to manage that infrastructure. Having it all in place negates the Dicky McDickerson problem from the outset. What we really need is to scale back a lot of what we have and to classify much of what people do to get rich as organized crime.
For the US specifically we’ll also need a plan to deal with Christian Conservatives who will attempt to institute a theocracy pretty much right away.