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Originally Posted by jwb
The only real restraint on these communes is the taxes they pay and certain basic laws they still have to follow. Which is basically just protection money. In a world without nation States you would be tasked with funding your own protection. That's why armies exist. As soon as people discovered the ability to make a surplus, they subsequently discovered the need to pay armed soliders to protect it.
I'm not necessarily against socialism. I'm against anarchism. In my view govts are a necessary evil.
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I'm different in that while I don't have faith in anarchism I view force and economic coercion as inherently dehumanizing in a way that makes human life a form of misery. If my boss can tell me what to do on threat of economic hardship and my only recourse is to turn to some other boss who hopefully threatens me with lesser economic hardship or to become a boss who threatens someone else with economic hardship then that is amoral and should be fought. The alternative is accepting psychological slavery.
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Forgive my disbelief but I gave you a link and you didn't bat an eye
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I am batting an eye honestly. I just didn't see that group when I was honestly looking. They might be better than the alternatives I saw that amounted to "We're just starting a group" or "We're a squat hoping to not collapse in the next year." I'll give them a look and hope that they look good and that my antipathy is moved.