BEING A FASCIST ABOUT RECIPROCITY MEANS YOU CAN BE ANARCHIST ABOUT EVERYTHING EL

BEING A FASCIST ABOUT RECIPROCITY MEANS YOU CAN BE ANARCHIST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE

By: Gearóid Walsh (via Michael Hayes)

Being an absolute fascist about the bare essentials of punishing ir-reciprocity means you can be anarchist about everything else.

The idealist anarchist alternative is “well I hope that they will respect the Non Aggression Principle”.

The real world just doesn’t work that way. Liberty is an emergent property of safe and high trust societies (contracts and boundaries are expected to be honoured as a social norm and criminality is against the social norm) much more than it can be defined in the utopian abstract, and in terms of absence of select factors.