The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>And what's so "simple" about "disagreements and misunderstandings"? 
>That's why I said the anarchist utopia is a fantasy of perfect 
>transparency and harmony - there are no competing interests, no 
>cultural or temperamental gulfs in ideology or preferences - none, 
>that is, beyond minor ones that can be cleared up with conversation. 
>It dispenses with coercion and conflict by imagining a world where 
>all important differences disappear. Call me stunted and brutalized 
>by the world we live in, but that seems impossible and undesirable 
>even. It would require a pretty static world too, since change would 
>have to inspire conflict. Don't you see anything productive about 
>conflict, Gordon?
>
>Doug

But we are not talking about all manners of conflict; some conflicts, 
even today, do not require state intervention.  We are specifically 
debating if there will always be the kind of conflict (class 
conflict; and horrid acts of interpersonal violence like murder, 
rape, domestic violence, etc.) that demands the presence of the state 
(an institution that monopolizes legitimate use of force), regardless 
of what sort of social relations we may have.
-- 
Yoshie

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