After the U.S. Election of a Semi-Fascist

[u/burtzev]

https://anarchistnews.org/content/after-us-election-semi-fascist-few-thoughts-anarchist

[u/JustMeRC]

I’m all for measures that invigorate democracy, but the idea that a purely hyper-local system can address everyone’s needs adequately is a bit far-fetched to me. There are too many resource considerations to take into account. You can’t have hyper-local control over water sources, for example.

My concern is what is necessary to create a new and better society—not a perfect one, but merely one without wars and the threat of nuclear war, without the developing ecological catastrophe which threatens us all, without capitalist economic crises, and without various forms of oppression (racial, sexual, gender, etc.).

I’d also like to be free of those things, but I don’t understand how this would be achieved simply by eliminating government. People will always coalesce into factions.