Pretty much every political system works great if everyone is capable of acting in a reasonable fashion.
Monarchy works great if the king is reasonable and surrounds himself with reasonable advisors that help make the kingdom a better place.
Republics work great when the senators are reasonable and act in the benefit of the citizens.
Pure democracy works great when the people are reasonable and work to make life better for everyone.
The problem is that everyone isn’t reasonable. “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals”. The egalitarian success of a political system is directly proportional to how well it manages the large number of unreasonable people within it. If your system is authoritarian, unreasonable people will gravitate to official positions of power. If your system is toothless, unreasonable people will develop their own positions of power through physical force or social influence. You can hypothesize emergent self-regulation all day, but if your system doesn’t account for exceptionally unreasonable people, it will become their plaything.
Humanity started as anarchic. Every system of oppression developed from that naturally anarchic system.
That is the fundamental precept of anarchism, that people will prioritize self-interest, and thus we need to make a society which accounts for that fact, rather than trusting rulers not to abuse power for their own gain.
I strongly recommend checking out an anarchist FAQ to learn more, because anarchism is the only ideology which can permenently liberate the working class.
Yeah, it’s nice in theory, but a bit idealistic. The majority of people are always going to prioritise self interest over all else
Pretty much every political system works great if everyone is capable of acting in a reasonable fashion.
Monarchy works great if the king is reasonable and surrounds himself with reasonable advisors that help make the kingdom a better place.
Republics work great when the senators are reasonable and act in the benefit of the citizens.
Pure democracy works great when the people are reasonable and work to make life better for everyone.
The problem is that everyone isn’t reasonable. “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals”. The egalitarian success of a political system is directly proportional to how well it manages the large number of unreasonable people within it. If your system is authoritarian, unreasonable people will gravitate to official positions of power. If your system is toothless, unreasonable people will develop their own positions of power through physical force or social influence. You can hypothesize emergent self-regulation all day, but if your system doesn’t account for exceptionally unreasonable people, it will become their plaything.
Humanity started as anarchic. Every system of oppression developed from that naturally anarchic system.
That is the fundamental precept of anarchism, that people will prioritize self-interest, and thus we need to make a society which accounts for that fact, rather than trusting rulers not to abuse power for their own gain.
I strongly recommend checking out an anarchist FAQ to learn more, because anarchism is the only ideology which can permenently liberate the working class.
It is Disney-movie levels of romantic idealism.