>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.
Hmm, that's one, and they were done in by another society with no scruples about coercion. This is not a compelling historical record.
Doug