Anarchy in theory is great and it is fairly obvious for small societies but it’s complicated for me to imagine how a a functional anarchist society would work with more people.

It would need very proactive and trustworthy people. Anyways I want to know how you all think of solving these problems.

The penalty system. I mean like what now is judges, cops, lawyers. I am guessing there will still be laws? I mean who would decide those anyways and if there were no laws ig it would be case specific. I guess people could do that without needing cops and if you get enough people you cpuld also find a system for that instead of laws

Military forces. I mean like an anarchist country could already be a target. So like if you have no defenses you disappear eventually and if that happens what was the point of having an anarchist country. And then like who is keeping all the weapons and stuff. I mean it could technically just once again be a non-for-profit and people who wqnt to fight just fight.

And some person just trying to take the power while getting people join to them. Even if they don’t get control a lot of people could die.

Like Idk maybe I am missing something or I’m dumb, well I am but like fkdjmed I was saying like all of these would need proactive, trustworthy, dedicated and good people. But I don’t think that’s the mayority of people, maybe I may be wrong but idk. Besides from a lot of people being agaonst the whole idea in the first place making it vey hard or almpst impoasible to mantain.

I still wanna hear what you all think of this ans other possible problems that you know of to like clear things up a little more for me, ty!

  • EnchiladaRaisins@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    My point is that people like Trump will never have a change of mindset. If his problems truly are pathological then he can never have a change of mindset.

    I’m seriously asking. What would be done with him in an ideal society? Others here are saying that the goal is to make a society where power cannot be concentrated. Great, but someone like Trump will try to do so, and he will never ever stop until he is involuntarily stopped. What does stopping him look like?

    • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      What would be done with him in an ideal society?

      Probably not so much? In an ideal society he wouldnt be able to order people around to do bad things for him, he wouldnt have money or power to pay people to do bad things for him, he wouldnt find platforms that would help him create a following, he wouldnt find many people actually joining his cause etc. So in the best case he would just give up or constantly fail and be a sad old man that soon dies because of age.

      But if he actually poses a problem with his anti social behaviour because change isnt something that he wants or can do and his actions seem to work to a degree, communities could try things such as:

      • socially isolate him in ways that make it hard to built any social power
      • monitoring his actions to intervene before he does violence
      • remove access to things he could use to do violence
      • exile him to a place where other bad actors live, like a a small town that can mostly sustain itself but gets some outside help to not be a death sentence
      • and lastly, trying to dominate people that maybe liberated themselves, with many maybe having lost friend, family, community members during their liberation, is a recipe to get oneself killed out of justified rage or through simple self defense.

      A more sophisticated answer is provided in the anarchist FAQ