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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by elindbe2 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:56AM (#24384487)
"the capacity for doing harm is only very large when you have highly centralised power structures"

I don't think this is true. Look at the Mongols. A few nomadic tribes got together and conquered most of Asia. They created a highly centralized power center by force but they didn't start out with one.

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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by tdeck on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:20PM (#24385678)
I'm not sure that's a good example because these tribes themselves were autocratic in governance before they conquered other nations.
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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) by elindbe2 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @07:45PM (#24387739)
I don't think it was "highly centralized" compared to say Imperial China as an example. It was a bunch of nomadic tribes banding together. And there's no reason to believe all autocracy could be abolished and forever prevented from forming under (or outside of) an anarchist regime.
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