rockerface 🇺🇦

Cis white bisexual guy from Ukraine. That should about cover it.

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  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldMeme.
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    24 days ago

    It’s important to distinguish anarchy and anomie. The latter is the government collapse you mentioned, accompanied with lawlessness and lack of morals, while the former is simply lack of central overseeing authority (archism), for one reason or another.

    The long term goal of anarchism is not destroying all governmental structures in one fell swoop, but rather gradually building communities based on liberty, solidarity and mutual help that don’t require hierarchy or coercion to function.

    Then those communities naturally take over governmental functions like protecting the people, the central government dissolves when it is no longer needed and the process doesn’t harm anyone. No “new government” is created nor is necessary.

    In terms of relationship between anarchism and libertarianism, I like to think of anarchists as a subset of libertarianists (since we all oppose authoritarianism fundamentally). I’ll admit I’m not as familiar with other libertarian ideologies.



  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldMeme.
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    24 days ago

    That description does not contradict my words. It says about abolishing coercion and hierarchy, not authority

    Edit: I re-read your reply. Yes, the part about being “against all forms of authority” is not entirely accurate, but the second part is true nonetheless. I suppose you could rephrase my example with the doctor and call it an “expertise” instead of authority, but the concept of it is people would still defer to specialists in specific fields that have more knowledge and experience than them.

    As I’m new to the anarchism myself and do not wish to misrepresent its values, I think this this site might give you a better in-depth look


  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldMeme.
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    24 days ago

    That’s not what the theory of communism aims for, but you do you.

    Edit: to go in a bit more details, anarchism doesn’t deny all authority, just authority gained by and used for coercion. A doctor would still have authority to recommend treatments, since they are more knowledgeable, for example. So that uncorrupted and caring government you want is simply a form of anarchism