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There is a large distinction between anarchy and the lack of a state. While statelessness is necessary for anarchy, it is not sufficient.

That said, you can have whatever opinion you want, but when your opinion goes against hundreds of years of political thought and literature, people will be slightly confused.



There is a large distinction between anarchy and the lack of a state.

isn't this exactly what I said, or are you not able to distinguish between "lack of state" and "absence of state-wide law"?


I guess I focused in on you placing statelessness as the primary condition. Statelessness isn't the goal or an end; it's a natural consequence of building a society without hierarchy.


I guess I focused in on you placing statelessness as the primary condition. Statelessness isn't the goal or an end; it's a natural consequence of building a society without hierarchy.

Well, first of all I didn't place statelessness as the primary condition. By "state-wide" I meant "country-wide" or "land-wide", not "government-wide".

And secondly, I don't know of any other examples, but in my own country's history we had an anarchist society which had clearly defined hierarchy (that doesn't mean that people couldn't move between different levels of that hierarchy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory_(Ukraine)

true, it wasn't probably a true anarchist society, but it is as close as it gets, again as I said, don't know any better.


> Well, first of all I didn't place statelessness as the primary condition.

I apologize for misrepresenting your position, then. I still don't fully understand, but this is getting way offtopic anyway.

> it is as close as it gets,

I'm not ultra-familliar with that particular example, but there is a big list here (It's one of them): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anarchist_communitie...




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