[lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results

[Devine, James]

if "coercive rules" are imposed from above (by some authority), maybe non-coercive rules would be imposed by mutual consent (democracy). But that's democracy, not anarchy. 

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Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Perrin [mailto:dperrin at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:37 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results
> 
> 
> > How do you enforce "non-coercive" rules?
> >
> > Doug
> 
> Hard to say. Perhaps it's impossible. Ideally the concept of 
> a non-coercive
> order is based on voluntary cooperation and compromise, the 
> very element of
> serious anarchism or any form of libertarianism. It may all 
> be a fantasy, or
> perhaps only elements can be realized at this point in our 
> evolution. In any
> event, I was responding to the age-old belief that anarchism 
> is about chaos
> and disorder. All the anarchist thinkers and writers I've 
> read over the
> years insist on the opposite.
> 
> DP
> 
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