31-March-2008, 04:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Moose
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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It brings to mind the short story by Niven, "Cloak of Anarchy" in which Niven illustrates one of Niven's Laws: "Anarchy is the least stable system". The story is about a park that is close to anarchy--robot cops keep things from deteriorating. Then a hacker figures out how to disable the cops, and it really was anarchy...for maybe an hour or so till the toughest made themselves gang leaders.
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