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The definition I could find of anarchism as a political philosophy is:

“Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, governments, nation states, and capitalism”

You sound like you’re describing being a good neighbor. Which is good.

But I don’t see how it has any bearing on being an anarchist.

And encouraging the feds to step in to fix interstate water rights sounds very pragmatic, but the opposite of that political philosophy. Unless you’d expect it to weaken their power.



Go re read my posts. I think we should not have the federal or state governments.

But we do have them. So using them as a tool, until we can replace them with something better, is fine.

And indeed, most anarchists are just "be a good neighbor, at scale".




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