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The link I originally replied to said

Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction ... In reality, nothing could be further from the truth

I don't see how it's possible to oppose the massive governments and billionaires of the world without destruction, so I wanted more information.

If you're out there committing various crimes to further your ideology, then that seems like you're doing your best.

I think these are good ideas. What I don't understand is how they survive in the world. Let's say you're an anarchist community of 200 people living in Palestine...?

Thanks!

Have you decided? If so, are you going to do anything about it?

who is it that you think should rule the entire world?

I suppose my objection is that "The Anarchist Library" seems like it's got some kind of grand vision behind it for a world without masters. But it sounds like you're saying that Anarchy is just going, "wow my masters are crap and i wish i didn't have to do their dumb shit." If so, I guess I'm an anarchist. Feels kinda lame, is all. And I empathize with the picture of text in the OP that says it's lame. |-:

That's an understandable position. Maybe more denialism than anarchism?

I appreciate the larger-context link, but it's not very convincing. It doesn't even convince itself in the end:

Now, you might object that all this is well and good as a way for small groups of people to get on with each other, but managing a city, or a country, is an entirely different matter. And of course there is something to this.

I've gotten the exact same lecture from Libertarians. "Life would be perfect if everything was run via free-market capitalism!" But I'm similarly unconvinced because there's noting to indicate that at the inter-state level it would be anything but fantasy.

Unless your pitch is that Anarchy just means, "love thy neighbor"? In which case, cool I'm on board. But I think it's confusing to use an existing word with a meaning to mean something totally different.

DeepL is fantastic. Not only are the translations better, I find the UI better also.

OK, cool. That definitely helps things.

I think where we're disagreeing is that I think in a capitalist society the promise of money will inevitably corrupt the government (because it's made of people). Maybe it can be avoided if the government performs additional regulatory action to stop anyone from getting too wealthy, but that sounds like beyond the limits that you want to set for government.

Without force

Whoah, whoah. Why'd you rule that out?

Your business plan: quality goods at reasonable prices. My business plan: hire some goons to kill you and take your stuff.

Historically, this has a lot of precedence.

Do you already know some French Canadians? The best and most fun way to learn a language is by talking with people. If you know someone who speaks a language you want to learn and they're willing to struggle through talking with you, pick that language.

In an unfettered marketplace, what stops a dominant player from introducing fetters?

But this was arbitrary. It's not like "why are there only 16 colors on this video game" (because of space constraints). They could have made it 257 users and nothing would overflow. Given that, I think they should have made a human-comfortable number (multiple of 10) instead of a machine-comfortable number (power of 2).