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Old 31-March-2008, 12:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Warren Platts View Post
You know, anarchy could work, but it would depend on massive individual commitments to be real with everybody else.
That's not anarchy. Anarchy stops being anarchy the moment there is any cooperation whatsoever between individuals. Psychologists have gone a long way towards demonstrating experimentally that anarchy cannot exist in human populations. Even firmly controlled artificial anarchies where communication isn't permitted would invariably evolve into small pockets of cooperation and alliance.

What you're describing is communism.

(What the 1950s era Soviets did wasn't communism any more than what we do is democracy. "A rose by any other name...")
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