These are great questions, and there are different possible answers that have worked well in real non-hierarchal societies. I’d like to share more of those examples in my future articles, but you can find some in books like Anarchy In Action & Anarchy Works in the meantime.
But I always think it is important to realise that Anarchism does…
These are great questions, and there are different possible answers that have worked well in real non-hierarchal societies. I’d like to share more of those examples in my future articles, but you can find some in books like Anarchy In Action & Anarchy Works in the meantime.
But I always think it is important to realise that Anarchism doesn’t rely on people being angels to function successful, it focuses on removing people having power over others so that if they have far less potential to do damage. Whereas our current systems allow rulers to do a great deal of evil in the name of maintaining power.
As for the question of numbers I agree that a community is most cohesive when people all know each other, so the important thing is to not lose this, for this to form the basis of society, from the bottom up rather than from the top down.
These are great questions, and there are different possible answers that have worked well in real non-hierarchal societies. I’d like to share more of those examples in my future articles, but you can find some in books like Anarchy In Action & Anarchy Works in the meantime.
But I always think it is important to realise that Anarchism doesn’t rely on people being angels to function successful, it focuses on removing people having power over others so that if they have far less potential to do damage. Whereas our current systems allow rulers to do a great deal of evil in the name of maintaining power.
As for the question of numbers I agree that a community is most cohesive when people all know each other, so the important thing is to not lose this, for this to form the basis of society, from the bottom up rather than from the top down.
I look forward to the articles yet to come, thank you