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They don’t really expect society. Society relies on rules and common understanding, actual anarchy would lack society.

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16 points

Anarchy is order. Rules and comon understandings are kinda central to anarchist theory. Anarchy is a common understanding.

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3 points

It’s also impossible. All you need to overthrow the whole system is a small group of dissidents.

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4 points

How would they do that?

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3 points

These two statements seem at odds.

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1 point

Agreed.

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Why would you need hierarchical command and controleformalized power structures (the thing anarchist oppose) for society?

Rules and common understanding naturally emerge when humans live together. You don’t need a king/chief/boss/god for that.

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the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

You aren’t anarchistic if you’re organized, that’s kind of the point.

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That is simply not true. Anarchism opposes institutionalized hierarchies of command and control. There are anti-organisational cnrrents in anarchy but the vast majority of anarchists don’t oppose organization. Also, thereshave been too many anarchist organisations in history to count.

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3 points

You need to stop basing your political know-how on Mad Max movies.

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2 points

That’s not an argument that’s a poorly disguised insult to wit, get fucked bud make an argument or stay quiet.

Also mad max had communism and thus society, shitty society but still.

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a poorly disguised insult

No, Clyde… I made no attempt to disguise the insult.

Also mad max had communism

You need another insult?

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“Mad Max had communism”

From the same people who brought you “everything I don’t like is communism”

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1 point

Agreed

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To be fair, all entertainment media carries a political subtext, and Mad Max Fury Road had an interesting one - which is why it’s one of the few AAA movies made in the last decade that’s actually worth watching all the way to the end - but that’s not the kind of thing you can discuss with the “if-you-want-anarchy-go-to-Sudan” crowd.

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No anarchy doesn’t necessarily mean no contracts it’s about having faith in a society upholding contracts without a need to rely on a government. Think of crypto itself. Now imagine enabling humanity to enforce this degree of accountability in the real world.

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