• @NateNate60@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      Pasting the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article here:

      Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy, primarily targeting the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism is usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism).

      • @Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        Nope, try again.

        No kings, no masters. Mutual aid and harmony without authoritarian leadership.

        Kropotkin can explain it better than I can, maybe pick up his book called Mutual Aid.

          • @sharkfinsoup@lemmy.ml
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            223 months ago

            That is objectively wrong according to most historians and anthropologists. It is propaganda written by those in power to justify their abuse of power. What you are describing is generally seen as sociopathic and antisocial behavior. And this may come as a shock to you, but most people are not sociopaths.

            • The people with the most power and force are sociopathic though. So we can all be as empathetic as is reasonable, but a relatively small group of well armed people will take everything.

              Anarchy and Libertarianism are the wishful thinking of the left and right. People may on average be good, but large enough groups never are.

              • @sharkfinsoup@lemmy.ml
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                113 months ago

                The whole point of mutual aid is to prevent that though. It organizes people together to stop a small group of people from taking everything.

                The hard part is getting everyone to participate in mutual aid when we live in a dog eat dog world that was built by the small group of well armed people.

          • chewables
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            13 months ago

            yeah, we don’t want the strong taking everything you build. Just bend over and let the rich do it instead, because that’s better for some reason