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ziq wrote (edited )

A small (individualist) anarchist community? Completely possible. They already exist all over the world.

An anarchist (communist) society / country? Very unlikely. The US and its allies would bomb it into oblivion for threatening the capitalist system. That's if they even let it establish itself in the first place. Any country that rejects money and debt gets destroyed by US imperialism.

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dele_ted OP wrote (edited )

I think that depends very much on where in the world this society would spawn. If anarchists organized and took over enough land to create a somewhat self-sustaining, although tiny, society within one of the peaceful western countries, such as Denmark, Sweden, Finland or Iceland (where there's plenty of empty land perfectly fit for this), US and its allies wouldn't dare to come near it. They would be bombing allied soil, and would be in shit up to their necks if they threw as much as one bomb. I doubt that these smaller countries such as Denmark and Iceland would care enough about a small anarchist organization to deploy military forces. They would certainly use militarized police, but, as evidenced by the free-towns around the world, police can be repelled.

e: a typo

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SpiderGrinder wrote

Can't say that the police in Iceland is that militarized, but they would probably be used against a self-sustaining anarchist society, no matter how small, when that would hit the news and become a mainstream discussion (and it would be controversial as anything else in the country, there was f.e. a minor shitstorm when some individual wanted to live alone in the woods close to Reykjavík some years ago: http://www.visir.is/g/2015150939991 (the article is in Icelandic FYI)).

Anyway, I don't really think that Iceland has that much more empty land as other countries, because most of Iceland is covered in uninhabitable mountains, also known as óbyggðirnar (no-mans-land/where none can live).

Also don't really know how you would self-sustain food-wise other than raising some animals and live of them, but vegetables and other stuff like that is pretty hard to sustain, especially with the cruel climate that often takes place outside the capital, mostly in winter...I don't really understand why people still live on that giant volcano, but the discussion about moving to another country seems to be regular around most ages, as far as I know.

But enough about that, it would still be interesting to see an alternative society like that and how well it would work out in the long run.

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ziq wrote (edited )

See the first paragraph of my comment. You're talking about setting up a commune within a state (individualism), not an attempt to declare a stateless and moneyless society (communism).

Look at what happened in Catalonia when they voted to secede from the Spanish state. And they weren't even radicals. If they had declared anarcho-communism, Spain would have massacred them.

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elyersio wrote

What happened in Catalonia?

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juliebean wrote (edited )

back in october, they declared independence , and Spain was not having it. cops were attacking folks at polling places before the vote was even finished

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dele_ted OP wrote

That's disturbing. Those pigs look more like military than police. Why the hell are they beating, kicking and arresting peaceful citizens? They have a right to vote and protest, as far as i know.

Do you know if any cops got in trouble after this? Nothing in that video looks right.

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juliebean wrote

i am sorry to be the one to break this to you, but that is what cops do. it is basically their entire reason for existing. i seriously doubt that anyone got in trouble.

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