power

[Gordon Fitch]

Gordon:
> > machines, there are historical examples of societies which 
> > did not have 
> > coercive institutions.

Wojtek Sokolowski:
> Such as?

The Dukhobors, at least until their communities were socially
and culturally destroyed by the governments of Canada and
British Columbia in the 1950s.

http://www.igs.net/~koozmataras/
http://www.doukhobor-homepage.com/
http://www.iskramag.org/

-- Gordon