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I will, though I must say it also sounds a lot like the ideas in Common Sense by Thomas Payne.

I am also interested in the ideas by Nicholas Taleb on fractalistic societies. You familiar with his work?

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person to use the term Anarchism to describe the political philosophy that we (anarchists) believe in. He was born the same year Thomas Payne died. So while Payne wouldn't have described himself as an Anarchist, we definitely recognize that he was in many ways espousing Anarchist philosophy.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-m-van-der-we...

>Nicholas Taleb

I'm not familiar, and Google doesn't seem to bring anything up under his name or under fractalistic societies. Unless you mean Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of Black Swan? If so, I'm also not familiar with his work outside of knowing about that Book.

Interesting.

Yeah, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author. Highly recommended to read Black Swan.

Here is his essay (wip) : https://acataleptico.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/principia_p...

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