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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by wz1000 on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:47AM (#16097498)
Similarly, Rojava and their role in Syria are barely mentioned by Western media.
Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by ChristianBundy on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:16AM (#16097728)
To be fair, this is true for all anarchist societies, as their stated goals are directly contrary to the goals of media conglomerates owned and managed by wealthy capitalists.
Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by hutzlibu on Monday January 08, 2018 @07:28PM (#16102353)
But as far as I could see it, all anarchist society's still in effect acted as a state, no matter how much they said otherwise.

And the rojava is not really anarchist afaik. (there is only a small anarchist group inside, of mostly foreigners)

They are a independent Kurdish society in the first place. Then they have strong ties to marxism because of Pkk and their history, but lately more moderate federalism.

But with the pressure from ISS and now turkey, they just accept any help they can get, so that's why they have hardcore marxists next to antimuslim fanatics next to regular (capitalist) american special forces.

If it would not be cracy dangerous, I actually would like to see all that weird mix by myself ...

Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by int_19h on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:08PM (#16103529)
They seem to be anarchist in a sense that they reject the notion of state as an organizational structure for their society.
Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by Danihan on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:49AM (#16097962)
Could you name a few of these that you're referring to? I'd love to read more.
Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by Iv on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:11AM (#16104213)
I am not a specialist but these two (largely overlapping) lists provide a good start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy#Lists_of_ungoverned_co...

There are also interesting things happening in Catalonia and the Basque country, but the limit between anarchy, direct democracy, autonomism is more blurry there.

I would also add that another reason why they are not talked about too much in the media is because they keep quiet. They know that a small community has to live under the radar because a strong influx of newcomers could easily destroy them.