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[+] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)
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    BioShock 2 revealed that Andrew Ryan had a secret prison to throw people into when they disrupted his control over the city. And more than once he decided he would burn it all down rather than let someone else win.

    It may have masqueraded as anarchy, but the system was still rigged from the start. There was always a ruler. And power can corrupt even the strongest idealistic convictions

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    but the system was still rigged from the start

    And this, intentionally or not, is the real message. There's no such thing as a real meritocracy, the system is always rigged in favor of the people who created it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Core ideas of anarchism: mutual aid, no hierarchies, stateless moneyless society, free association.

    This person: anarchism is capitalism without rules

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    Anarchy is explicitly against "profits".

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    usually anarchists advocate for elected or rotational positions for policing.

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    The same thing that happens anywhere else? A power struggle between the people who want it and don't? Are you implying this is unique to anarchism in some way? I don't see why it would be.

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    There is a legal recourse, you're saying someone with power ignored the law and attempted a coup... do you think coups don't happen in non anarchist countries? How is this unique to anarchism in any way?

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  • Give one historical example of this happening to an anarchist commune?

    also anarchists have all of those legal frameworks in place as well, this is simply not true and has no historical basis.

    In nearly every example I have read about they have been destroyed through military might of an external power, see revolutionary catalonia and the zapatistas as examples. It turns out rich capitalists don't want anarchism to work, and desperately try to destroy it.

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