Always fun when people take an idea put forward by multiple 19th century anarchist thinkers and Marx, the Paris Commune, the IWW, the black liberation movement, entire Mexican towns, and try to associate it with teenage stoners.
"The centralized state power, with its ubiquitous organs of standing army, police, bureaucracy, clergy, and judicature..originates from the days of absolute monarchy, serving nascent middle class society as a mighty weapon in its struggle against feudalism."
"Having once got rid of the standing army and the police – the physical force elements of the old government – the Commune was anxious to [disestablish and disendow the churches]" - Marx, Civil War in France, 1871
Cherán, an indigenous locality in Michoacán, banished political parties, police and gangsters, for several years now.
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"No great, central power ..of men who know nothing of their constituents’ trades, interests, rights or duties, would be over the various organizations... nor would they employ sheriffs, policemen, courts or jailers..." - Lucy Parsons libcom.org/library/princi…
