[lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 23 13:13:06 PDT 2003


Devine, James 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.

But even democracy needs coercion - if someone breaks a law (a democratically promulgated law), he or she would have to be punished somehow, no? Call me a pessimist incorrigibly corrupted by life under capitalism, but there will always be bad guys.

Doug



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