• bss03@infosec.pub
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    14 hours ago

    I don’t personally have designs. But, libertarian socialism / anarchism does have perspectives, if not plans.

    power and authority to rule over others

    No one gets this.

    enforce rules

    Everyone does this.

    tyranny of the majority

    Anarchists reject the premise that freedoms of the minority can be removed by democratic vote. While votes can be informative, even useful, they are not binding.

    people with the most strength/resources/time/energy to rule over others

    My understanding is that the people, collectively, are considered more powerful than any individual, and any anti-social individuals will be corrected by the people.

    I personally think that warlord-ism is a risk. It seems a common enough result of a governmental vacuum. But, as I understand the theory, any persons that attempt to rule will be resisted as if they were the government. Liberal socialism isn’t pacifistic; it argues that defensive violence is just. In particular, if someone is making a legitimate threat of violence to take away the freedoms of you or someone else, you should use violence to remove the threat. If the threat is significant or persistent enough, this (defensive) violence might require collective action.

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      10 hours ago

      I think that pretty much everyone would prefer to have a state where laws and heirarchies are well defined rather than some sort of make believe society that relies on every person being politically engaged and violence to exist.

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        9 hours ago

        No, I think plenty of people see any hierarchy as a suffocating imposition on their freedoms and person, an enabler of bad behavior, and an attempt at a justification for poverty and deprivation. Basically equality is the absence of hierarchy, and any hierarchy existing means equality has not yet been achieved.

        See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs

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          6 hours ago

          I don’t think those people will ever get the consent of the majority which kind of undermines the entire concept of their society.