Questions for Anarchists:How do you address infrastructure projects?

[gustodon@mas.to]

Questions for Anarchists:

How do you address infrastructure projects? Who makes sure the roads are paved?

How do you deal with international threats? Why wouldn't a neighboring country simply annex your territory?

How do you deal with a significant departure from human behavioral norms, like a serial killer?

I would love to live in a world without rulers but I don't want to live in a world without rules.

[skippy@dungeoncrawler.world]

@Gustodon I’ve only just started, but Cory Doctorow’s “Walkaway” is (so far) about a lot of this. Post-scarcity self-organizing communities. It’s fiction, and maybe a little heavy handed at times, but maybe a good intro to what could be?

[gustodon@mas.to]

@skippy That's interesting; I asked an anarchist for a book that would explain how it would work and what they gave me was The Stand.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@Gustodon @skippy I think en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Ig… by Ada Palmer could be a good book to read about a planet-wide society that runs on some anarchist principles, but is also very much not made of anarchists (except for a small minority).

Fiction, science fiction, too, not a howto guide on how to build an anarchist society, but a thought-provoking read nonetheless.

(one important principle is that anybody is free to choose freely what set of rules they want to follow and be protected by, other than a few basic rules that manage the relationship between people who choose different kinds of rules (and another few basic rules that are internally historically significant / externally important to the plot))