More important than opposition to the current system is the prefiguration of an anarchic one. So much online discourse is about attacking, a lot less is about building. I drew this to remind myself and others that confronting the state is only a part of the puzzle and building new systems without it is also important.
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What kind of enforcement would a “marriage contract” need in a moneyless society?
Greedy selfish people can’t abuse a system that doesn’t allow accumulation of wealth.
Sidenote that this is an anarchist space and while we tolerate such some debate, we don’t have to tolerate your shitty attitude. Check the sidebar.
Possessions will still exist. Divorcing couples need to divide stuff too, not just money.
There’s also the whole thing about the custody of children… What happens when a father decides the judge (or whomever makes the ruling in your utopia) is wrong about giving full custody of a child to the mother, and decides to take the child (something that already happens all of the time in the US and elsewhere) and disappear?
Does the mom just throw her hands up and say, “oh well. Guess I’ll have to make another”?
Does the father get to keep the child simply because he’s the bigger (like physically bigger) person of the two, and can physically prevent the mother from seeing the child?
Violence (either the implied threat, or literal straight up violence) is ultimately the only thing keeping any sort of contractual law from completely disintegrating.
The best solution we’ve found so far is a social contract where everyone agrees to cede some of their freedom in return for security and stability. We allow “the state” to have a monopoly on violence.
It’s obviously far from perfect, but as long as you have an educated and informed public, it’s possible (yet very difficult) to maintain.
When you take that away, you end up with feudalism.