Anarchy vs. Anarchy

[Borodog]

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At least AS has some sort of period of existence, i.e. spanish civil war, or paris commune. Not a lot, but something.

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Are you kidding? AS societies lasted for litterally tens of thousands of years.

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These are recent examples. I don't know what you have in mind, but things that are quite a bit older, if in fact they were AS, aren't really relevant today anyway.

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There have been hundreds if not thousands of anarchosocialist societies (stateless societies with social norms that do not include private ownership of the factors of production), and Kaj and I aren't talking about what is "relevant today". We're having a discussion about theory.

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well, good! how about AC [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Quite a few, actually. The American west, the pre-state Alaskan frontier, the brief time during which the Pennsylvania state government collapsed from lack of interest, Medieval Ireland, Medieval Iceland, and some segments of Medieval Europe were all pretty much stateless societies that recognized private property in all orders of goods, contract, and used money (although some of these cultures were more libertarian that others, etc).

Also, because private property, contract, and money all developed before the state, anarcho-capitalist societies likely existed in many places around the world.

[clowntable]

Who's going to mention Somalia and Jamaica?