Like I've always said don't accept false binaries derail the train.
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Noooo! That's uncivil!
Yeah, having no government or legal infrastructure would turn out really well for those marginalized people.
Can it be worse than genocide?
The visionary answer is yes, a totally controlled society.
The historical answer is no. But nuclear war is still on the table.
Compare Brazil, a country with endemic corruption to the point of anarchy. Gangsters regularly murder political opponents. And has a particularly high prison population. So yeah, pretty bad.
Turns out solving systemic problems through destroying systems is like digging a hole in the beach. We have to provide better systems as alternatives. Which is why we support lemmy.
I don't think you know what anarchism is.
Compare Brazil
Brazil has an enormous institutional government both at the national level and via the various local mayoralties. Totally nuts to claim the second largest armed force in the Americas is "no government or legal institutions". FFS, they did a soft coup with Operation Carwash that amounted to a defacto military dictatorship, until Bolsonaro basically shat himself out of office.
Turns out solving systemic problems through destroying systems
What system did Brazilian anarchists destroy?
The closest you could claim was Bolsonaro's devolution of authority to corporate-aligned lackeys in the major metro areas. But then you're in the position of claiming Kleptocracy and Corporationism are the same thing as No Government.
And you're still left explaining how Lula's been gradually clawing all that power back up to the top or where his sweeping economic reforms are coming from.