• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    the means of self defence are equally distributed

    That has never been, and will never be true. You could magically eliminate all weapons on the planet simultaneously and it still won’t be true, since some people are bigger and stronger than others.

    And in case you haven’t been paying attention to history; authoritarians very rarely just show up out of nowhere and take over. They are usually installed as leader after some form of revolution, then the title just gets transferred once the authoritarian system is in place. It’s usually far more insidious than just some guy the village has to band together to fight off.

    • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It doesn’t mean that every person has equal ability to physically defend themselves, but that society has the mechanisms to defend everyone that is being attacked. A grandma doesn’t need to be able to self defend against a thug in the street if the people nearby do it for her.

      The second paragraph is not relevant as there are no historical examples of a dictator getting into power from within an anarchist society.