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?
Laws against hate crime significantly lower their rate of occurrence. Compare countries where it is illegal for employers to discriminate against employees on the basis of their sexuality, or in housing, or where hate crimes are taken seriously by the law versus countries where it isn’t taken seriously by the law.
It’s intuitive to know that if you can kill a minority member and routinely get away with it scot-free, you will be seeing it more often than if it was appropriately punished.
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