The path-dependency of discourse is kinda wild. Like how the anglophone left largely wrote off Xeer and Somalia because ancaps "claimed" them, and indeed the more that ancaps studied stateless legal systems, the more commonly this provoked rejections of "law" in anarchist theory.
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I largely agree that anarchy is an ideal or value system rather than a state of affairs that is ever fully reached, and so I'm sympathetic to "anarchy means no law" frames, but it's funny when those same folks turn for inspiration to the function of other stateless societies.
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It's just kinda unsettling when political or ideological divisions in western anarchism start divvying up claim to different societies that fall outside of westphalian norms. Like ancoms claiming chiapas, iroquois, & rojava. Ancaps claiming iceland & xeer. Just weird flag shit.
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Anyway, my take tends to be: "any historic or presently existing stateless society will be compromised and imperfect, but are worth learning from" And they all have "legal" codes of a kind. Which maybe isn't pure anarchy, but is still worth grappling with and theorizing.
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My goal in life is to exploit the cognitive mechanics of this path dependency generation to assemble a collection of writing such that anyone who reads it will become incapable of ever reading anything or doing discourse again.
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