I am also an anarchist comrade and while it is true that ultimately we should abolish forcing people to have to vote who they want to give power to, right now it is necessary to stave off the worst tumors of capitalism. Also democracy isn’t shit as a form of deciding what to do in a situation where multiple parties want to cooperate but want different things.
Yeah, just a reminder that if you give up a democratic voting system for a communalistic or independent anarchist polity, your life will be filled with constant negotiation. Much more time spent working things out, rules and jurisdictions and justice and division of labour need to be sorted, and it will be constant. I guess that’s okay, but eyes open.
Look at what the syrian Kurds are doing with just that post-state situation, right now. It’s a lot of working things out at the very local and regional scale, which is great, and time consuming.
Rojava is absolutely a place to look to and was eye opening for me personally.
I don’t necessarily agree that it will be constant, at least not after a while. But even if it was, still much better than forcing people to obey rules imposed on them from above.
Yep, it’s just worth reminding people that there’s more engagement in community required when you don’t contract those services out to a governing class.
And yes, all the extra work at the beginning, right?
I think that the increasing ease of automating a lot of administrative functions will be a major enabler of stateless living. (Not AI, just better cheap data management and interfaces.)
I am also an anarchist comrade and while it is true that ultimately we should abolish forcing people to have to vote who they want to give power to, right now it is necessary to stave off the worst tumors of capitalism. Also democracy isn’t shit as a form of deciding what to do in a situation where multiple parties want to cooperate but want different things.
Yeah, just a reminder that if you give up a democratic voting system for a communalistic or independent anarchist polity, your life will be filled with constant negotiation. Much more time spent working things out, rules and jurisdictions and justice and division of labour need to be sorted, and it will be constant. I guess that’s okay, but eyes open.
Look at what the syrian Kurds are doing with just that post-state situation, right now. It’s a lot of working things out at the very local and regional scale, which is great, and time consuming.
Rojava is absolutely a place to look to and was eye opening for me personally. I don’t necessarily agree that it will be constant, at least not after a while. But even if it was, still much better than forcing people to obey rules imposed on them from above.
Yep, it’s just worth reminding people that there’s more engagement in community required when you don’t contract those services out to a governing class.
And yes, all the extra work at the beginning, right?
I think that the increasing ease of automating a lot of administrative functions will be a major enabler of stateless living. (Not AI, just better cheap data management and interfaces.)