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How can people build a cooperative community where everyone retains the right to say no, without becoming trapped by dependence on those they disagree with?
You’ve been beating this drum longer than I have, so I’d like your take and any reading you’d recommend on it, apart from the "and then there were none by Eric Russell" short novel you gave me all those years ago.
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https://archive.org/details/lookingbackward01bellgoog/
https://archive.org/details/ironhee00lond/mode/2up
Both of these describe a way.
This one describes the destination.
Mostly what has to happen is the locals have to organize themselves, suffer any abuse their poor choices get them, and the cycle will repeat.
IF the overarching principle is that violence is to only be used in self defense, and that effectively adopted by the children, then inside 2 generations the changes necessary to go from a bully world to a cooperative world can be had.
Where conflict occurs separation is the solution.
No forced associations.
If that isn't possible, then one of them will likely be the aggressor and the other justified in defending themselves.
For full effect, the group will need to be self sufficient, anything less and crapitalism defeats the effort, for now.
Keep working, stop paying.™
Thanks. I’m working on an article called “Who Gets to Say No?” for a possible paid submission to Advocates for Self-Government. It’s about refusal, consent, and how people can cooperate without claiming the right to rule over each other. This gives me plenty to work my argument around in my own words. I can already see that Berkman gives a specific place to begin on Chapter 22, “Will Communist Anarchism Work?”
From that I can examine how he handles someone refusing cooperation. My childlike answer is in a jip is, "ask if they want to help, if they don't want to then we don't get to make them." But what if we absolutely need to? And what would call for the necessity? Is one of the few questions I aim to explore to find and explain.
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People that have what it takes to build these get to say, 'NO!'
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