I feel myself sliding further to the anarchist side, which I don't actually like, but it feels like the best option actually available. Choose between various kinds of powermonger or hope that people can self-organise well enough to outlive them. I don't know. I would rather have a trustworthy state, but that is not on the menu. Even in countries I've spent time in where the state is more or less not corrupt, that's only a contingent thing. And it's a minority of places, and a microscopic one if you weight it by population.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •@silverwizard I mean, you say that, but I'm not highly impressed with non-capitalist states and I feel like there's a lack of established supporting evidence of that happening in a modern context. The difference between something theoretically working and actually happening in practice matters to me!
Plus we're not going in ab initio, we've got to start from here. Which includes adversaries with nuclear weapons.
All I really care about is people and practical outcomes, and I'm honestly pretty pissed off that that puts me outside of mainstream politics. But we are where we are.
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@silverwizard I don't know how anarchist you want to go, but if you want to go all in, then you shouldn't really look to "non-capitalist states" for comparisons because anarchism is anti-statist (i.e. against all states).
Generally, anarchists tend to try to live normally, but trying to slowly rely less and less on the state. Relying doesn't necessarily mean using, so for example to your first point, you don't have to take your kids out of school, just make sure that their education doesn't rely on the government (so teach them yourself some stuff/find some people in your community who can). Furthermore, anarchism is (despite how much my autism&social anxiety doesn't like it) all about community (society ≠ ), so see if you find some local anarchist groups you could join. They should also be able to teach you more about anarchism than I can in a single post (or at all if I'm honest).
The idea at play here is "preconfiguration", so building the structures that we want in the old ones up until such a point that we find that the old system is not really used at all anymore (only the new one) which means we have fully transitioned to a new one, without the (difficult, often violent) Glorious Revolution the communists dream of.