more arabic voluntarism

"Volunteer residents carrying the flag of Libya's monarchy prior to Muammar Qaddafi's reign, and offering to help in providing municipal services such as cleaning, ride on a truck in Benghazi, Libya Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Alaguri)"
source - http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/02/a-bloody-week-in-libya/100014/

yet more of the stateless order we saw during uprisings in egypt. i banged on about it in blog comments back then too.

egyptians organised neighbourhood security, refuse collection, an international media centre, a field hospital in Tahrir square. all on a completely voluntary basis.

now, during a revolution this voluntarism is unpaid but a commercial transaction is just as much a voluntary exchange as a charitable donation is. the key is the absence of coercion.

lets hope someone somewhere realises that they dont have to rebuild a state just to get bin lorries.

http://blackcrescent.info/

http://c4ss.org/