Re:FBI obtains Kolektiva.social database while executing war...
by lamontcg on Sunday July 02, 2023 @03:26PM
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> How do you enforce rules without hierarchy?
This is why I'm more of a pragmatic minarchist.
People will continue to keep forming groups and multiplying their efforts and that creates power imbalances, and people will continue to keep seeking to try to wield that power.
So what needs to happen is that the government, corporations, unions, and organized religion need to be set against each other and kept in balance. That only happens through the people being educated though and being involved and able to restrict what they can do. Although corporations themselves are formed like dictatorships and that needs to fundamentally change so that they're at least more like representative democracy.
There's still going to be power hierarchies, though, but the point is to minimize them.
Of all the different philosophies, though, anarchism is at least solidly in the right direction, even if the end goals are impossible. But I think its a lot like the "paradox" of intolerance, where the naively perfect world isn't a stable optimum, but that doesn't invalidate getting closer to that being better.
This is why I'm more of a pragmatic minarchist.
People will continue to keep forming groups and multiplying their efforts and that creates power imbalances, and people will continue to keep seeking to try to wield that power.
So what needs to happen is that the government, corporations, unions, and organized religion need to be set against each other and kept in balance. That only happens through the people being educated though and being involved and able to restrict what they can do. Although corporations themselves are formed like dictatorships and that needs to fundamentally change so that they're at least more like representative democracy.
There's still going to be power hierarchies, though, but the point is to minimize them.
Of all the different philosophies, though, anarchism is at least solidly in the right direction, even if the end goals are impossible. But I think its a lot like the "paradox" of intolerance, where the naively perfect world isn't a stable optimum, but that doesn't invalidate getting closer to that being better.