Re:No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1870)
by SwellJoe on Sunday June 12, 2016 @09:29PM
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It's wonderful how many straw men reside in discussions of anarchism. I have, nowhere, suggested "majoritarianism" (that was a bear to spell on my phone, which wanted to correct it to "authoritarianism").
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Re:No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1870)
by cbd1984 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @11:00PM
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Except without a higher authority to prevent it, majoritarianism is exactly what ends up happening. It isn't a strawman if it's inevitable.
Re:No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1870)
by programmarchy on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:05AM
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To you have any evidence to back up that claim, or just a blind assertion?
From Majoritarianism [1], quoting anarchist anthropologist David Graeber:
> "Majority democracy, we might say, can only emerge when two factors coincide: 1. a feeling that people should have equal say in making group decisions, and 2. a coercive apparatus capable of enforcing those decisions." Graeber argues that those two factors almost never meet: "Where egalitarian societies exist, it is also usually considered wrong to impose systematic coercion. Where a machinery of coercion did exist, it did not even occur to those wielding it that they were enforcing any sort of popular will."