Re: anarchy and crisis!?

Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:46:05 -0500

"Joe E. Dees" wrote:

> Date sent: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:37:08 +0000
> From: Emmanuel Charpentier <manu@cybercable.fr>
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: anarchy and crisis!?
> Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
>
> >
> > Nobody has answered my question about anarchy systems in cases of
> > crisis (like war).
> >
> > Any try???
> >
> > exemple: how could an anarchist earth defend itself effectively
> > against an invading virus or ETs (say the invader start with some sort
> > of advantage in technology)?
> >
> > I read somewhere that a spanish group of soldiers did organise
> > itself democratically or anarchistically (?), but that they only managed
> > to lose their battles. Has anybody heard about that or such
> > experiments...?
> >
> > Manu
> >
> The Poles once tried a gov't where everyone had a vote and, for any
> bill to become law, it had to pass unanimously. They abandoned it
> when they could get nothing done.

How could they get everyone to agree to abandon it then? I would have liked to have lived there....

Mike