• blackris@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 days ago

      Because most people use the word anarchy for a society without rules and without order. Right of the strongest, 365 days The Purge or something like that. But anarchism isn’t about that, but about a peaceful way of living without hierarchies and rulers. I was sure, that is not, what OP meant.

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        6 days ago

        My question was about OP’s use of the term. Why do you think he misused it? “What do we do if X happens” —> “anomie is different from anarchy” seems like a non sequitur.

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          As I wrote before, I think OP meant to ask what happens if the US falls into a state of anomy. Nearly everybody who talks about that, uses the word anarchy instead, which is wrong.

          Should be clear enough now, I hope.

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            Why do you think he was wrong? He didn’t say anything that suggested he didn’t know the definition of anarchy.