RE: The Precarity of Anarchy: A Reason to Doubt
So much to take in. I'm only vaguely familiar with anarchist ideas, but have been meeting more & more people lately who think about it deeply. I appreciated your critical look at all sides.
One simplistic way I like look at things is there are two types of people:
- Truly free individuals who engage in the struggle for self-mastery (peace, justice, wisdom, etc...)
- Those who seek masters to govern them instead of governing themselves.
To be truly free requires a ton of work. It also requires a shift in consciousness. Most people aren't up for it or even remotely interested in it. A truly stateless system depends on this highly unlikely event.
So we're left with 99.9% of people who prefer to be governed over. They tend to form tribes.
The challenge is that the world has people from both groups. So ideally a system can support those who seek freedom alongside those who really don't care all that much, but would enjoy the benefits nonetheless.
... I guess much of what your saying picks up from there until you reach "libertarian social democracy with a republican system". Now I need to study and unpack what exactly that means. :)
Thank you for getting me started!
You should look into liquid democracy or delegative democracy....its basically direct and participatory in principle, but people who don't want to participate can delegate their vote to someone else, a delegate, who acts kind of like a representative(but not exactly).
"Libertarian social democracy with a republican system"... Let's unpack that.
Republican simply means "representative democracy"
Libertarian, as I use the term, means left-libertarian or classical libertarian, harking back to libertarian socialism which sought communal-ownership of land and the abolition of wage-slavery. I call my model libertarian social democracy insofar as it involves abolishing wage-slavery through making land publicly-owned (in principle, at least) by instituting a land value tax (or ground-rent) and distributing the revenue evenly amongst the citizens as a universal basic income.
Social democracy just designates a democratic society, with a market system, but that uses taxation in order to fund welfare programs that alleviate the injustices that naturally arise under laissez-faire.
Thank you for the explanation and compass. 😀 I'm clipping this into my notebook to refer back to.
Look forward to reading your future (and past) posts!