>On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Anonymous wrote:
>
>>Crypto-anarchy is in fact not really anarchy, since it only addresses
>>some kinds of authority, ie government, and only in certain situations.
>>True anarchy involves the dissolution of other hierarchical relationships,
>>including those that spring from private property. Get rid of private
>>property and many of these problems disappear.
>
>Details, details. People use the term 'anarchy' a bit too casually here,
>nothing else. Mostly what they mean is 'libertarian'. The latter in no
>way excludes other hierarchical relationships, as we all know hardcore
>anarchy does. Tim's favorite characterization of this side of anarchy is

        No, it doesn't.

        There are some hardcore anarchists who claim that their 
vision of anarchy doesn't, but if (as an example) Alice cannot direct 
the life of bob *at* *all*, how can she prevent Bob from 
*voluntarily* joining (or in fact creating) a hierarchical 
relationship?
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