• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    For anarchism to work, there has to be similar enough values and cultures among different communities to trust each other. But the world is too diverse at the moment for that to happen. I mean, anarchism is possible like the Fremens in Dune, but it would take a long time for a planetary wide cultural convergence to allow anarchism to thrive.

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      7 hours ago

      Fremen aren’t anarchists. They’re more like a thousand tiny military dictatorships with each community picking a leader with absolute authority via trial by combat. Then Paul turns them into a theocracy.

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        3 hours ago

        which is exactly what happens to real world anarchy too, but there is a particular subset of leftists who like to delude themselves into thinking that that only applies to ancaps

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      12 hours ago

      I mean we have multicultural anarchism at the global scale, there is no single world government and international law is more a set of recommendations