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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No involuntary impositions of power and authority is the centrist position. The anarchist position should be no impositions of power and authority even if they are voluntary. A perfect example of voluntary power and authority is wage labor. By any usable standard, wage labor is voluntary. Anarchists should object to wage labor because it involves a hierarchy of alienation. This violates workers' inalienable rights, which are rights that can't be given up even with consent

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

When somebody asks for an intro to anarchism I generally don't feel it's super useful to get deep into the weeds of definitions.

The salient point is no "I'm your boss do what I say or you starve" maybe "You asked me to teach you, practice these tasks or find another teacher"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if I'm really into impositions of power and authority though? Like REALLY into it??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's fine, we don't kink shame here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Abolishing slavery did not prevent people from acting in a manner they wished. It prevented them from having the lack of rights of a slave. Similarly, preventing people from being wage laborers just means that that working in a firm would automatically confer voting rights over the firm and make management democratically accountable to the people that work in the firm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think you replied to the wrong comment? I was making a sex joke lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No involuntary impositions of power and authority is the centrist position.

Lol! No.