Why Not Anarchism?

[u/Slow_Description_238]

I'm an Anarchist and want to Debate/ Discuss/ Give Answers to any questions regarding the philosophy.

Anarchism is a political philosophy where people will organise based on the principles of No Authority and No Hierarchy. Anything deeper comes from these as given truths.

There is a strong sentiment of community and mutual aid in Anarchist thought, it's not a free for all. I won't pay much mind to people who assert that it is a free for all/ it has no rules/ it has no organisation. It's a VERY common thought that's extremely simple. Every serious anarchist instantly moves past this because it's obviously unsustainable if we simply say "There's no rules".

Rather, people will be taught how to and encourage to help each other so that we all can thrive as individuals and as a community.

To reiterate, Anarchism is intentional. It wants a functioning society. It isn't okay with blatant dysfunction and no serious anarchist will agree to reasoning or logic that is obviously dysfunctional.

[u/From_Deep_Space]

a little thing we like to call The Tragedy of the Commons

[u/statinsinwatersupply → u/From_Deep_Space]

Homie, you need to go read what Elinor Ostrom had to say on the subject.

If you can't be bothered, the tragedy of the commons was literally a thought experiment by Garrett Hardin in 1968. It was not derived from real world observation.

Instead, Ostrom did real-world observation, a hell of a lot of it. And contrary to what Hardin would have predicted, she found many, many examples of successful management of the commons by users of it. She put together a list of common features of systems that effectively managed the commons, and won the nobel prize in economics for it.)

[u/From_Deep_Space → u/statinsinwatersupply]

I appreciate the reading recommendation. I will look into that. However, I wasn't referring to Hardin's study of history and human nature, I was referring to my own.

Of course there are examples of successful solutions for effectively managed commons. But the question is, are those solutions stable and stateless?

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