• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    But what I think they’re trying to describe is a dual-power relationship between the state and labor

    They didn’t mention labor, they are talking about power as in the power the government or a president has

    But the promise of an immaculate statutory framework that denies any individual or coalition power is a false one.

    I don’t picture anarchism as a system where a statutory framework is put in place

    Power is a consequence of social relationships and control of physical capital by individuals.

    I don’t like much this generalization, you are describing the power over control of physical capital, in our scenario the power is granted through law and established through police

    There is no established structure that can prevent a cartel of insiders from seizing control of critical infrastructure.

    Something we can be sure neither established or non-established structure can’t change is the truth, nobody can change the fact that 1+1=2, they can only lie about it for some time

    Civil Rights can only ever be aspirational in a world where a local monopoly on violence undoes in days what a community spent generations building.

    It took humans millions or years to learn how to hold a stick, perhaps it just take more time and effort