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> You realize that heirarchy is exactly how you enforce rules, correct? You can't enforce rules without heirarchy.

That's not necessarily true, is it? All participants of an instance or group could practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy to form and enforce a set of rules without hierarchies. Not saying that's what happened here though...



Sure, but I don't think just only having direct democracy is sufficient, especially in an anarchist society.

The only nation state currently that somewhat has a form of direct democracy (Major emphasis on somewhat)- Switzerland- still has absurd hierarchies, some even more so than other countries, where entire cantons can decide who can or cannot move somewhere.




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