I hear this claim a fair bit, admittedly often in communist spaces.
It is said that any group of people bigger than 50-200 people “requires” hierarchy.
I’m not sure about that.
What do anarchists make of this?
I hear this claim a fair bit, admittedly often in communist spaces.
It is said that any group of people bigger than 50-200 people “requires” hierarchy.
I’m not sure about that.
What do anarchists make of this?
You’re mixing a few things here. It is precisely the law that makes discrimination at your place of employment possible. The law means you must put up with it or starve and be homeless, the law means you must follow your boss’s orders, the law means that people can withhold the stuff you need to live or prevent “their” property.
None of this would be possible
Except there’s nothing to stop people from doing those things even without those laws.
The laws against violent hate crime make a more compelling case than employment laws imo.
Step back a minute and ask what structures exist that encourage hate crimes? Ask why only the most heirarchical societies tend to have them.
Patriarchy and religious institutions occur to me as the most immediately obvious answers, but otherwise I’m not sure.
There are “less” hierarchial countries?