Thursday, 7 July 2011

An Alternative Jurisdiction Within The Venezuelan State


If you're an anarchist, interested in polycentric legal systems, competitive jurisdictions, and voluntary social organisation then you'll find plenty of food for thought in this video and accompanying article.
It does need to be said that I am not advocating this as a text book example of libertopia but, like Somalia and other examples of human society under reduced statism, these rare glimpses can prove tantalising insights.
Perhaps this prison is more akin to the oft cited criticism of anarchy that instead of one Nation-State sized state, we would all live in mini-states and there would be no true anarchy. I don't think this would be the supposed prohibitively negative vision anarchists' critics believe. the fiefdoms of rival city states/gated communities/gang lands/warlords or whatever they refer to sound terrible but it would be more akin to choosing between Butlins, Centre Parcs or Disney world (competing commercial holiday resorts).

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