Sally Strange (@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe)
eldritch.cafe
It strikes me that all the people who are like "OMG anarchists, how can you possibly run a society without laws and cops and prisons, how will you ever stop the bad guys" had better start listening to the actual answers because those are going to be our most effective tactics going forward. None of the apparatus of power is going to be on your side.

With everything going on in the US I am seeing more and more of these takes by Mastodons anarchists and I once again fail to understand how their alternative would work. Especially coming out of an intensively individualized system like capitalism, how do you just do no hiearchies? And why is the State always just the cops and military, would someone think about the infrastructure, hospitals, schools…

I am biased, because I am most definitely a statist. Mainly because I have studied them and work in the public sector. It is surprisingly a lot that goes into seemingly mundane things like city planning or the planning and implementation of services of any kind, you do need experts for it. Even in luxury space communism, someone is going to have to steer the ship and design it.

I don’t know, from real life experience I know that when for example there is an emergency, people do self-organize. But at the same time I have not once experienced this happening without a hierarchy forming almost instantly.

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The comments in that thread seem to be generalizing the badness of the burger state to states in general. The only time an AES country comes up is talking about corrupt cops after the fall of the USSR. Even deeply unserious anarchoNATOists bring up oppression (real and imagined) committed by the tankietarian penispotatoships.