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Sep 12, 2020, 5 tweets

Relative to the a-caps, the left anarchists in this debate are far more vague on what "system" they propose. They more have outcome goals & opinions on which acts are moral, but not concrete institution proposals.

The concept of "coercion" doesn't seem to actually do much work in setting left-anarchist policy positions.

I get that there are many concrete left & progressive proposals. & I get that anarchists don't like dominance or hierarchy. But I thought that they might also share concrete "coercion" related proposals, other than just tending left & anti-hierarchy. Seems not

In general I'm more interested in bothering to figure out proposals that many people support, rather than just one guy. So I'm not that eager to learn each left anarchist' concrete proposals, if they don't have much in common.

On reflection, the concept of "government" also doesn't seem to do much work in left anarchism. They seem willing to support "democracy" authorizing folks with guns to take stuff, or prevent others from using stuff, and apparently that doesn't count as "government".

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