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A thought experiment. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 days ago by anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Imagine you are a person fighting in an anarchist revolt. You have captured a sizeable chunk of land but the front line has grown too large and you can't progress further. The state that you have been fighting approaches you with an offer: They recognise you as a sovereign (however that would look like) entity but you have to give away most of the land you've captured. They will leave you with the primary city and enough surrounding land to feed everyone.

What would be your position? Would you be willing to make a deal with the state?

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

  1. Why would they care about casualties?

  2. Yeah but they want all of it, and will not be satisfied.

  3. Yeah. Of course they would. Theyre authoritarians.

  4. Would it? Do they care

  5. They don't want that, though. They want to punish, make examples, and have slaves.

[–] anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I imagine the state as more a liberal representative democracy. Some place that has freedom of speech and relatively fair elections. The kind of country that actually needs public support to enact their rule. Not an authoritarian hell-scape, I wouldn't trust any deal they make anyway.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I (barely) remember the 90s, when most people would say i lived in one of those. Nah, still dont trust it as far as i can throw it.