Anarchy in theory is great and it is fairly obvious for small societies but it's complicated for me to imagine how a a functional anarchist society would work with more people.
It would need very proactive and trustworthy people. Anyways I want to know how you all think of solving these problems.
The penalty system. I mean like what now is judges, cops, lawyers. I am guessing there will still be laws? I mean who would decide those anyways and if there were no laws ig it would be case specific. I guess people could do that without needing cops and if you get enough people you cpuld also find a system for that instead of laws
Military forces. I mean like an anarchist country could already be a target. So like if you have no defenses you disappear eventually and if that happens what was the point of having an anarchist country. And then like who is keeping all the weapons and stuff. I mean it could technically just once again be a non-for-profit and people who wqnt to fight just fight.
And some person just trying to take the power while getting people join to them. Even if they don't get control a lot of people could die.
Like Idk maybe I am missing something or I'm dumb, well I am but like fkdjmed I was saying like all of these would need proactive, trustworthy, dedicated and good people. But I don't think that's the mayority of people, maybe I may be wrong but idk. Besides from a lot of people being agaonst the whole idea in the first place making it vey hard or almpst impoasible to mantain.
I still wanna hear what you all think of this ans other possible problems that you know of to like clear things up a little more for me, ty!
So, this question is often asked and the real answer is that due to the very nature of anarchism, no one can really say for sure. To prescribe one system for "how it will all work" is sort of antithetical to anarchy. Emma Goldman touches on this in her essay "Anarchism" (iirc, someone correct me if i'm wrong lol).
There are lots of different schools of thought, however. It's not like there haven't been attempts to answer the question, its just that they should all only be considered as possibilities, whereas the actual implementation may draw from all of these ideas or none of them, possibly even shifting according to the needs and abilities of the people over any given period of time.
Here's a good resource as well: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionI.html
yea makes sense. I was kinda asking for what people thought in a sense.
One book that I found helpful, that I think is what you’re getting at, was Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
We’re anarchists, so of course some people will have critiques and feel differently than he does, but I think it’s a pretty accessible overview that addresses some of your questions