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> Man, if only there were like ways that Anarchists could organize and fight that.

If an anarchist state can organize and fight, why wouldn't they organize and enslave/steal from neighbors? Then that escalates and creates a country where the ruling anarchists steals and enslaves from the rest. The other anarchies doesn't put up a fight since fighting costs more than just giving the ruler anarchists what they want, and here the ruler anarchist state also protects the peaceful anarchists from other ruler anarchists. Can you explain how anarchies would stop this sort of hierarchy of anarchies from happening?

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Anarchist State.

Ruler Anarchist.

I don't think you quite grasp what Anarchism is.

Anarchism isn't simply the removal of rules and calling it a day. It's about decolonizing our minds and ideologies. It's about restructuring our societies so that would be rulers can't gain power in the first place. It's about cooperation over competition.

I used those words to make a point. If an area would become anarchist as you say, I'd call it an anarchist state. And then that area has a military presence, areas with military presence uses that to influence surrounding areas, creating ruler anarchist areas, or ruler anarchist states. That will happen, it has happened at every time anything like this has been tried ever in history, there is no changing that. I will not submit to a warlord just because you want to run your thought experiment yet again.

Every 30 years, humanity looses the knowledge on previously failed experiments and dusty tomes of failed political philosophy get another chance to bloom. His "rediscovery" of what did not work for hundreds of years is part of the bug.

The inability of the democratic system to reform and thus in-cooperate constructive elements of the youth- that is the real battlefront. Extremism is a symptom of a decay of ability in the middle.

Or perhaps Liberalism is inherently oppressive and no amount of reform or change will change that fact.

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