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I need to learn more about anarchism as a political philosophy, I have little grasp of like, what it actually means in practice
by its nature there's a lot of free content online.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works isn't a bad start.
The works of Kropotkin are on there as well. Conquest of Bread is a banger.
I can't get behind anarchism because there will literally always be antisocial people seeking to hurt others, physically or not. Anarchism either ignores that reality or hopes those evil people willingly attend treatment programs that hopefully make them stop hurting others. Murder, rape, theft, war, etc.
That's not necessarily true, those people can be banished from a community or even violently resisted depending on your flavor.
And even if you take your statement as fact, isn't that a much easier problem to solve than what we're dealing with now? Maybe some limited prisons for the worst offenders might be our only compromise
Banished how? They can just re enter.
Violently resisted how? Lynch mob?
I agree that limited prisons is preferable to the current US system but you've essentially just reinvented government and police in all but name.
Positions of power like that in anarchist societies are usually held in rotation or fully democratically.
i gotta be honest with you, do you really think no anarchist philosopher ever thought of that?
not exactly, it's not theoretical this is how stuff has worked before. someone can be banished from a society and become a persona non grata that can't get support from anyone.
you're acting as if something that's actually in our history is unimaginable