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Re:The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview wi... by adwn on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:29AM (#26722302)
> Perhaps more exact is to say that corruption requires authority.

Yes, that would be more correct. Authority != hierarchy, but you can't have a society without authority. You could start out with anarchy, but then authoritative structures would naturally emerge anyway.

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Re:The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview wi... by jampekka on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:58AM (#26722578)
Anarchistic views accept hierarchies and some sorts of authority, but these should be based on voluntary association (as far as possible) and only temporary and to serve some concrete purpose.
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