Cliff
At 03:52 PM 9/22/2003, you wrote:
>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
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> > -----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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