Monday, 14 January 2013

There will always be a state if there are groups

If all states are controlled by democracy then we can say that democracy is inevitable and that anarchy is impossible. Even in a stateless society the group will need to make decisions. And if these decisions are to be formalised then there will be a ballot of some kind and democracy. Even in an anarchist society democracy will emerge... it is emergent and so statelessness (if it means the absence of democracy) is impossible. There will always be states if to have a democracy is to have a state. We can think of democracy as (almost) the absence of a state. Democracy is inevitable. If to have democracy is to have a state then we will always have a state even if a group intends to live without a state. Such a group will need to make (collective) decisions which affect each other and so there will be a democracy and a state.

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