[lbo-talk] Democratic Communism

[Curtiss Leung]

Come on--what is a government but that which exercises 
power over a state?  What would be the role of a government
in a stateless society?  If it were to simply coordinate
the operations of the various public institutions *without*
having authority over them, could you properly call it a
government?

Curtiss


> "State" and "Government" are not the same. The government 
> and other public institutions would handle an earthquake 
> in a hypothetical stateless society just as they would 
> today. Replacing the army and the police with an armed 
> citizenry would be on the road to a stateless society.