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[-] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

It's unclear that is inevitable, but it does seem to be a common result of State socialism.

In libertarian socialism, hoarding resources will be recognized as an attack on the commons that can be answered with an attack (by the people) on the hoarder.

[-] Awooooooga@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

How in the world is that going to be policed?

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago

In libertarian socialism, the people are the police. There's no States, so no state-organized and state-privileged police force. I could be wrong though, I still need a lot of education around libertarian socialism; I'm very much used to Capitalism.

[-] Awooooooga@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That makes no sense. How are a bunch of vigilantes going to be accountable to the rest of society?

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe this will help: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-full#text-amuse-label-seci58

I haven't internalized all of it yet.

I think this is the most direct answer:

Simply put, if people impose themselves by force on others then “they will be the government” and “we will oppose them with force” for “if today we want to make a revolution against the government, it is not in order to submit ourselves supinely to new oppressors.” [Malatesta, Op. Cit., p. 99] This applies to defending a free society against organised counter-revolution and against those within it conducting anti-social (“criminal”) activities. The principle is the same, it is just the scale which is different.

The "bunch of vigilantes" will be accountable to the people because they will be the people. They will act to reject anti-social activities, re-educate people that chose to do anti-social acts (so they have a pro-social understanding), and remediate any harms due anti-social activities.

[-] Awooooooga@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

The police, right now, are the people. The state is the people.

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