• Delphia@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Projects and communities arent nation spanning governments. The larger the system the more rife for abuse.

    I dont dispute that it COULD work, but I do think that its a bit disingenuous to act like people arent gonna people and its going to be a magical utopia. If we could stop greedy assholes capitalism wouldnt be as bad as it is.

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      7 months ago

      Where did I say magical utopia?

      Rojava covers millions of people and does not have a state to speak of. It is a federation. They have no leader.

      People will people, but creating power structures that work to counter hierarchies of dominance is how you stop people from being systemically abusive. The idea that bad people exist shouldn’t encourage people to create hierarchies that empower a small group of people to abuse the rest of us, especially when we already know that those hierarchies attract abusers.

      The idea that hierarchies are necessary past a certain size is meaningless. Either it’s wrong and we can get rid of them, or it’s right and we’d never know. It’s unknowable if true. You are just stuck in the mental trap of hierarchical realism.