[lbo-talk] anarchist/commie soccer results

[Devine, James]

> 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

I didn't say that coercion wasn't needed under democracy. Rather, it's democratically called for, which makes it different from coercion imposed from above.

and it's not true that there will always be bad guys. There are none on lbo-talk, after all. 
;-)

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