anarchism
Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.
Theory
Introductory Anarchist Theory
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin
- Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
- Anarchy Works by Peter Genderloos
- Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide by Ruth Kinna
- Anarchism and Its Aspirations by Cindy Milstein
- Anarchy In Action by Colin Ward
- On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky & Nathan Schneider
- Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
Anarcho-Capitalism
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The Theory List :) https://hackmd.io/AJzzPSyIQz-BRxfY3fKBig?view Feel free to make an account and edit to your hearts content, or just DM me your suggestions ^~^ - The_Dawn
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Eusocial insects are hard to map on to human behavior, though. Like bees do seem to have something that roughly maps to democracy, but ants and termites seem to be essentially machines that operate on strict behavioral rules.
Okay, a General Secretary neuron in the brain then. Or all different kinds of living systems that secure a collective security of all members, none of which have a chain of command to one cell or individual in the center, making decisions on behalf of the whole.
Distributed decision-making systems are far more common in nature, in networks, and in the human experience. The only reason why it has not seemed so for the latter is because during a specific period, it was possible for centralized societies to gain leverage to wipe out non-centralized societies.
I don't consider myself anti-Leninist at all. I am fully on board with a vanguard party for the proletariat, as long as that vanguard party recognizes the congruity that monarchy and capitalism have with positioning individuals as absolute heads (or kingpins, or chokepoints) of command chains, and deliberately avoids the pitfalls of that model. That doesn't mean scrapping the concept of authority; the only thing that needs to go is authority that encompasses all domains and that positions people in rigidly defined strata, instead of specialized roles that are not ranked against each other.
Yeah, bees kinda fit that. Like it does seem like htey use, idk if you can really call it democracy, but they do use collective flat decision making. Not like anyone can really take over when you have two months of life.