Uninformed questions/impressions about anarchism
I do not know much about anarchism, this is not intended to be an attack on it, just some questions and concerns I have based on a minimal understanding of what it even is.
I guess let's see what happens.
People suck. As an example, half of Americans support republicans/supported Trump. EVERYONE holds problematic beliefs and worldviews. I can not imagine that the population and culture that we currently have could somehow behave and work towards good goals without leaders and authority. It feels like it would require generations of intentional guided shaping of culture to get a population which might be able to work like that?
If so, I don't think we have time for that. Things are dire now.
Wouldn't hierarchies naturally form? Some people are louder and more assertive than others. Most people do not care much about most things. Maybe if a coordinator emerges, it might initially be fine, but social standing like that will deepen and become a problem.
Wouldn't anarchism be a constant uphill battle?
How would an anarchist system mass produce complex technology stuff and generally create the quality of life we have now? I do not want to live in a world without computers and the internet.
Please do not throw books at me, that hurts and idk what to do with them.
Uninformed questions/impressions about anarchism
@malice we could apply a lot of what you've said here to any other belief system, yeah?
"why believe in conservative values, progressives are gonna keep existing?"
"why believe in progressive values, conservatives are going to keep existing!"
anarchism is just a set of philosophies that are critical of power, most notably the state, and attempt, in variable ways (since it is not a singular philosophy) to destroy those powers.
karl marx once answered a "confessional" that had on it, the question, "your idea of happiness?" and his response was "to fight"
we struggle because we are alive, because when others take away our ability to act it saddens us, it hurts us, it depresses us. deleuze described joy as "effectuating" ones capacity to act. to actually be able to put it into use. when we are denied this it creates resistance itself.
it's not about being able to theorize a world in which no one ever does anything bad, it's about struggling for the freedom to live our lives according to whatever form we wish, not according to the normalizing, bureaucratizing, commodifying world of state society, but according to the actual wants and needs of the relationships we have.
