I find it very curious that people come to this conclusion, when Anarchism is literally based on the opposite assumption, i.e. “all power corrupts” and has a long history of trying to find ways to prevent bad actors from taking over. I find any political theory other than Anarchism to be naive and child-like fantasy that is easily disproven by most of recent human history.
I was reading Peter Kropotkin book and he made an AMAZING point that if anything, power structures and capitalism are utopian! To believe, that the people you place as higher with more Power, would make the right decisions for you when it goes polar opposite to them GAINING more power in a system that only recognizes furthering of power, is I’d say, far more utopian than to believe that people will literally work together to make communities where everyone is happy… like they literally did for MOST of human history before stuff like monarchies were established
the more i read about anarchy the more obvious that its a pipe dream built on hope and ignorance… ignorance of the behavior of the human species.
a complete fantasy ignoring all of human history… a childlike utopia mashed with rugged individualism
I find it very curious that people come to this conclusion, when Anarchism is literally based on the opposite assumption, i.e. “all power corrupts” and has a long history of trying to find ways to prevent bad actors from taking over. I find any political theory other than Anarchism to be naive and child-like fantasy that is easily disproven by most of recent human history.
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