• Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    9 hours ago

    They define anarchy differently from the common definition. Anarchists believe in creating community organizations to serve the needs of society, but they refrain from calling it a state because they believe a state requires a monopoly on the acceptable use of violence.

    They don’t think that we should just dissolve society and let everyone fend for themselves to eliminate class, unless they’re an edgy teenager.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 hours ago

      This is very well put. Thank you! I feel this way as well.

      Everyone wants to immediately dogpile and go “OkAy SmArT gUy/GaL HoW wOuLd ThAt SoLvE eVeRyThiNg iMmEDiAtELy ToMmOrRoW huuuh?”

      (As if what we’ve got now was just hatched up by some folks in its current form and implemented overnight lol)

      I find myself an anarchist, but I’m also rational in seeing it more as an ideal to strive toward, rather than a concrete policy to implement overnight.

      If we’re heading towards a mutually cooperative society without unjust “I wear the hat so I make the rules” hierarchies, whether or not we reach it in a utopian sense, I think we’re still moving in the right direction.