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!
Imagine the same society, but everywhere there is hierarchy, you replace bosses by a collective assembly, which takes biggest decisions and mandates people for small, specified missions of oversight/management, and you get one option. From there, you can get another one if we want to do it without money : get rid of banks anf stuff, and organize local communities into regional federations, with multiple associations getting the information of what people need, and handling the collection and distribution of what is produced to everyone, and you get another one. Like people said, it can take many forms, both because there is a lot of different anarchist movments and because each one is not written in stone and is meant to evolve according to people needs.
For cops/judges, most anarchist advocate for reparative systems instead of repressive ones. There does not really need to be laws, though you could still have it, because it just tries to solve problems with everyone agreeing on a reparation specific to each situation. People in Chiapas are trying to implement that if i'm not mistaken.
For armies, anarchist did have armies in the past, you could have one or multiple existing in autonomy, or have a system where common people are trained to join an army of needed, like swiss people.
The problem of people trying to rebuild power is of course a big one, but if we managed to get rid of a fully developped power in place since centuries, there's no reason to think we can't get rid of an emerging one.
The questions you ask are very common, it's not dumb. It's just asked from the perspective we've been told so much and so early that it's deeply rooted in us, that violence and coercion are necessary for a working society, so it's hard to imagine anything outside of this.
Oh yea I'm also not so conserned of people regaining power but more in a large amount of people trying to regain power and like killing a lot of people in the process.
Oh, ok, then that's part of the bigger problem of Counter-revolutionary processes, though it's a wider term that can apply to anything that slightly deviates from the goals of the person employing it, including more "radical" or more "anarchistic" movements, it was first used for people opposing the french revolution and trying to reestablish monarchy. It's not a specificity of anarchism, more of any revolution. I'm afraid there is no clear answer to that problem, it will always depend on local specificity and have an at best imperfect solution.
Ty, that sounds nice. I was thinking of some stuff with it but it's... probably better than current society anyways lol. Also, ye, thanks a lot.