>Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>:
>> >If the ruling class and its non-ruling class supporters peacefully
>> >accept the transition to socialism, & if everyone, uncompelled by
>> >state power, immediately begins to observe rules of peaceful social
>> >intercourse according to communist principles, the state is
>> >practically unnecessary. That, however, has not & will not happen.
>
>Joseph Raso:
>> Which explains, in large part, why most Third World revolutionary states,
>> under attack from US imperialism and segments of the old ruling class,
>> constructed security apparatuses which were often repressive.
>
>Certainly. Unfortunately, this strategy has produced only
>further instances of feudalism and capitalism, which is why
>I suggest attention to anarchist proposals hitherto derided
>by many.
I'm afraid we won't get to anarchist society (which in my opinion is the same as communist society) by anarchist means. Suppose, though, anarchists somewhere somehow succeed in creating an anarchist society; anarchists will still have to defend it -- mostly likely by means repugnant to anarchist theory -- from counter-revolutionaries who are opposed to it & will assault it.
Yoshie