• KittyJynx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The question is what do you want government to do? There are non-state/non-corp solutions for every necessary function. Without the need for a profit motive or “progress for progress’s sake” a lot of jobs would not need to even exist or could be automated or done by piloted robots. We don’t need a $1T military if we are not trying to invade the world, active community militias and communally built defenses would make invasion more trouble than it is worth. A good book to read is Murray Bookchin’s Post-Scarcity Anarchism. It builds off Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid and factors in environmentalism and modern technology.

      • KittyJynx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Here is a pdf on the Anarchist Library. Unless you want to be really dogmatic about theory you don’t need to study all of it. I like to read through a book of theory as my weekly book every month or two to better understand other ideas and see if there is anything I could add to my personal philosophy.

        • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          8 days ago

          At least it’s better than the Anarchist Cookbook (and that’s full of actual explosive instructions that would get me in trouble with the FBI and such)

  • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Totally depends on on what you mean by “limited government”. If you mean “small for the sake of being small”, or “I want the government out of my life”, then you’re likely something else…closer to a right libertarian…or what many folks (incorrectly) just call a libertarian.

    Also depends on what you mean by “left” and “direct democracy”.

    All these terms are fraught and we need more info to answer you.

    If you mean “I want to vote on everything and I don’t trust the government to make decisions”, when you say direct democracy…then you’re basically a crazy person. Direct democracy works great with a small coop…not when it comes to government of any size. What happens when you have direct democracy in a government is the people pass conflicting laws and half of them can’t be exacted…and more terrible things like that.