• FMT99@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I still don’t understand what mechanism in anarchism prevents a strongman coming along, charming a bunch of guys with guns and taking whatever they want? How does this not turn into a bunch of warlords taking each other’s resources? And if your answer is “that’s what’s happening now”, ok fine but how does anarchism fix that?

    • porompopmpom@lemmy.ml
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      24 days ago

      Warlords are able to do that because they already start from a position of power, exploiting others and making them act against their own interests. This is one of the core problems “fixed” by anarchism.

      Does this mean this will never ever ever happen in an anarchist society? No, there will always be threats. But disregarding anarchism entirely just because it can’t fix something that is fundamentally unfixable hardly seems reasonable or fair.