• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Until the first person realizes that if they can sway 51% of the community, they can oppress the other 49%. Technically everyone has an equal vote, but one person definitely wields more power. It’s just mob rule, whoever is most persuasive is in charge.

      • Smookey4444@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Interestingly enough what you just described is a democracy, the socalled system that gives people power. Anarchist societies would be by consensus

            • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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              2 days ago

              People have conflicting wants. I want to live in the nice riverside plot, so do other people. I want the streets to be brick, other people want cobblestone. I want the town square to be a green space, other people want it to be a playground.

              Sometimes different parts of the community want mutually exclusive things. All of political and economic theory ultimately comes down to how to negotiate disagreements about how to do things. You’re not going to get unanimous consent on anything of substance in a group of more than a dozen people or so.