Do you want Anarchists to have Nuclear Weapons?

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by Nurse Ben

My doctoral research utilized feminist theory

Please start an advice column for people who want to know about women, since you have your doctorate in feminism!!!

[johnfoss]

Originally Posted by Gilby

The mafia is much cheaper and provides better services. Here are the top 10 reasons the mafia is better than the state:
Top 10 Reasons Why the Mafia is Better than the State - YouTube

That was cute, but it wasn't very funny. It should have been a lot shorter and more funny, like a David Letterman Top Ten list. Since it was, I assume, intended as a joke.

• Of course the Mafia is cheaper than the State. They don't build infrastructure.
• Mafia avoids war because it's bad for business? From what I understand, usually when mafias go to war it's over business.
• Mafia doesn't have all those regulations? That's because they operate in the shadow of the State, filling in the gaps in and circumventing those regulations.
• Mafia is honest? Maybe. But I still prefer having a contract.

Don't hit. Don't push. Don't hurt. Don't steal. That's what I was taught in kindergarten, if not before that.

And when the teacher left the room? We're not talking about the behavior of 5-year olds around adults, the point is when the adults leave. Or, as I've written about before on these forums, How many Kindergarteners does it take to pick up one juggling ball?

All of them.

[MrBoogiejuice]

Originally Posted by Gilby

It's going to be pretty hard to convince me that I need someone else to rule over me.

Contrary to what MrBoogiejuice might tell you, anarchy simply means "without a ruler," so it encompasses many different types of stateless societies.

Almost - it means without rule which of course means without a ruler, but the anarchist tradition also looks wider than that to identify other forms of coercion and power in societies such as patriarchy, racism, nationalism and capitalism then seeks to build directly democratic structures through which to level out these heirarchies and organise production, distribution and consumption.

Simply ending the power of government is futile, and indeed dangerous, unless thought is given to what can replace its necessary functions and prevent even less accountable monopolies of power taking its place.

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by johnfoss

That was cute, but it wasn't very funny. It should have been a lot shorter and more funny, like a David Letterman Top Ten list. Since it was, I assume, intended as a joke.

In the ratio of politics:humor, they didn't mind balancing heavy on the politics. That's politics for you.

[BillyTheMountain]

Originally Posted by MrBoogiejuice

Almost - it means without rule which of course means without a ruler, but the anarchist tradition also looks wider than that to identify other forms of coercion and power in societies such as patriarchy, racism, nationalism and capitalism then seeks to build directly democratic structures through which to level out these heirarchies and organise production, distribution and consumption.

Simply ending the power of government is futile, and indeed dangerous, unless thought is given to what can replace its necessary functions and prevent even less accountable monopolies of power taking its place.

Let me and Boogie write the book on how to keep the society egalitarian, start by taxing 100% of earnings once that person enters the top 1% of wage earners for the year.