From: Xela@yabbs
To: honkfish@yabbs
Subject: Community
Date: Sun Jan 30 13:56:08 1994

So are you proposing authoritarian communities which are "anarchist" in 
the sense that they are smaller bodies of power?  I do not see how this 
resolves the problem though.  Are means of production in the hands of the 
community or the individuals who make up that community?  If the education 
is in the hands of the community and not the State, isn't that just 
downsizing the power structure?  Free thought is still crushed.  I find it 
antithetical to base a free society on the whims of "enlightened" citizens 
controlling less-"enlightened" citizens.

I don't know whether society would be better off with or without 
government, as government would hardly let us find out in the first place 
which is better.  Nor do I believe anyone else *knows* that an anarchistic 
society would be better off.  It is all a matter of conjecture and theory.

Let me know where I have strayed here,
Alex Reynolds