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!
Hello there, these are good questions. Thank you for asking them.
The point here is that, societies may in fact have to be smaller to function, at least for a while, until people learn to work together better. They may interoperate through networks though, for a good example of this we recommend the book "A Half-Built Garden" by Ruthanna Emrys.
Time and time again carceral and punitive system have shown not to work for their stated goals. It is likely we would switch to a restorative and transformative model of justice, that or use violence very careful, like a scalpel instead of how it is currently used: like a sword or a bomb, swinging widly around or destroying whole communities of people.
If people cooperate, share freely and aren't held back from doing so then it is likely there wouldn't be those problems, plus we would likely move on from the resources, and ways of thinking that caused this. Though yes that is a good question to ponder in transitional phases, likely there would be something akin to a military that worked for the people whilst they deconstructed both systems and thinking which caused this.
This is kind of a contradiction in terms, countries are a product of having a state/central system of authority which isn't what anarchists are likely interested in having.
Right, which is why education and community support would have to be improved in order to counter this kind of person or group, not through coercion but more through teaching people to think for themselves and how to weigh costs against benefits. We tend to think that people would be more for a collective, and caring system/community, especially once they saw the benefits and weren't raised in a coercive, individualistic, and violent one.
It's okay to not understand things, that doesn't make you dumb. However, we would recommend reading, watching and listening to some people who break it all down. We can give recommendations if you'd like?
People are maleable and tend to perform better when there's less or no violence, coercion and they can get rest, none of these things are currently offered by most socieites/communities people live in.
A lot of people are against things that would benefit them until they see them in action, most fights against anarchist communites/societies have been top down rather than communities against them.
That isn't to say it wasn't provoked by those communities, or couldn't be, however, they usually use state aparatus in order to get their way which is why we have to dismantle the state or figure out ways to protective ourselves against it until we can maintain control in a transitional phase. Which yes, would not be easy, but it would be worthwhile.