Virtually everything non-anarchists come up with in their imagined terrible outcomes were anarchism to take root more broadly, are things that are actually happening right now!! Under colonialist, capitalist, authoritarian nation-states.
"But cults of personality!" my guy, I've seen how you lionize politicians and political parties. "But unchecked killing!" have you noticed cops, drone strikes, an endless succession of fucking genocides??
It's telling that almost any anarchist bogeyman they come up with already exists without anarchism. It's the horrific status quo that anarchists want to stop!
@idzie
I had someone recently ask me, how does anarchism respond to the threat of warlords and mafias?
And I responded that, of course, people should be free and empowered to defend themselves, alone or in voluntary cooperarion.
And he just threw up his hands and said, oh great, so we’ll all just kill each other.
And I don’t think that it occurred to him for even the barest of moments that “people kill each other” is the beating heart of every state that has ever existed.
“It would be terrible under anarchism because people would just kill each other!” exclaimed the man who lives in a world in which militaries armed with nuclear weapons exist and in which nuclear weapons have been used in war.