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JakobVirgil · 4373 days ago · link · · parent · post: Experiment: What's YOUR most controversial opinion, Hubski?
For most of the life of the species all societies were thought to have been "egalitarian and non-coercive", hunter-gatherer cultures tend to be that way. It was not until the agrarian revolution the societal stratification became possible (outside of a few fishing cultures).
You need to have enough extra calories to support a non-productive class.(1) Or if you would say that it would be "somewhat egalitarian and mostly non-coercive" then the whole thing starts to seem realistic. (2) But it would not be anarchy anymore.
1 - Exactly, Equality and non-coercion are goals, choices.
2 - only if you define anarchy in a way anarchists historically don't.