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the trouble with anarchism is all that liberty (quokk.au)
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How do you expect there to be a "we all" to invade without "us all" being able to take on nation-states?

Daily reminder that the Taliban managed to send the US military packing by fighting from a cave with a bunch of scraps. Guerilla is incredibly effective at turning empires into dust if you start the guerilla prepared, which any newly independent anarchist commune would automatically be by virtue of being newly independent.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure if I consider "Afghanistan during the Taliban guerilla war" a good example of ideal anarchist living. Nor what came after that for that matter.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    No, but they serve to illustrate how a guerilla can defeat the largest state military in the world, which is what the concern was.

    If you want to have exact historical examples of something succeeding before supporting it, you're never going to be first at anything. And with capitalism murdering over a hundred million of our grandchildren per year, we don't have the luxury of patience.

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