Post #540702

2026-03-05 17:30 UTC

How is a lack of rules more closely associated with libertarianism? Anarchy is the literal absence of government.

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@pebbles@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-05 17:41

Here are some starting points for ya lol: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism I see how you could get them confused as they both are about minimizing governance. From my understanding libertarianism is more broad with it. Anarchism still tries to create an egalitarian society though while liberalism is extremely laissez faire. The vast majority of anarchist have noticed that the world we live in is very unequal and have therefore concluded that it will take work to make a world without hierarchy. A quick look at the history books will show you that anarchist societies aren’t the most stable. Now we’ve never seen an anarchist world so it is hard to say if that would be stable, but anarchist societies embedded in hierarchical worlds are tough to sustain. Though I’m starting to think that you have really mixed together libertarianism and anarchism into something. So note that when I say anarchism I specifically mean realistic attempts to minimize hierarchy and not pure anti government.

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