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Anarchy is not by nature disorganized. Lack of hierarchy doesn't mean lack of organization. Probably a well-functioning anarchist organization is better organized than most hierarchical ones.
If friends are not there to defend the group of three, mutual aid is missing. That's why it failed.
Actually, there seems to be a bit of a mix-up. Let me clarify.
In an anarchist group, enforcing anything goes against its fundamental principles.
If personal gain is the motive, one isn't truly aligned with the group's social contract and isn't considered part of it.
Decisions are made collectively, without hierarchy. Voting or delegating organisational tasks to sub-groups is the norm.
I won't go into words like "attacking," "defense," or "threats" as they are military terms, far from the anarchist ethos.
And I won't call you "bro" or make you read theory. I feel you won't.
Why defenseless? The entire organization can defense itself from outsiders. No need of hierarchy for that.
Anarchism is really against coercion, that's what is meant by hierarchy. Hierarchy only makes sense if it's used for coercion of other's behavior.
There is no reason a group of people can't organize in a voluntary hierarchy to complete a task without the use of coercion.
Imagine a group of 10 anarchist making pizza for the homeless. Two of them make pizza for a living and 8 are there for the week to help out. There is nothing preventing those 8 people from taking instruction from the two that know how to make pizza. Nobody is coerced to be there or to do anything.
We don't need to incentivse not selling people out. Heirarchy creates a set of incentives TO sell people out. Remove those incentives and people will for the most part not sell people out. You've got it exactly backwards.
Ask your buddy mao about anarchist fighting forces. He literally took anarchist tactics around decentralized militias and used them to great success. The Vietnamese as well. Or have a look at the Spanish revolution, rojava, the Ukrainian black army, or the zapatistas if you need more proof that decentralized militant forces are effective and capable. It doesn't warrant an in detail explanation because "but how fight if democracy???" is weak as fuck.
Zapitista, Makhnovshchina, Rojava, Zomia, etc. didn't all descend into mass crime and slaughter.
What we've seen is these movements benefit the people living there.
Correct... and notably, unlike the other forces around them (Syrian dictatorship, Turkish-sponsored islamists, ISIS, etc) they responded to the accusation within a month:
Spain was not part of WW2. Facists won before that, though.
Are you the one that said not to say "go read theory"? Because the urge to tell you to go read theory is pretty fuckin strong. I'm not going to summarize 200 years of political philosophy and history for you. Especially because I know you're just gonna go "no you're wrong and my heirarchical realism is right" no matter how compelling my points are. I'll give you a couple of places to start, I guess.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. E-book/PDF version. Audiobook version.
Anarchy Works, Peter Gelderloos. PDF/E-book version Audiobook version
Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott, pdf version
An Anarchist FAQ
On YouTube: Anark (Theory essays), Andrewism (Theory and Praxis), Zoe Baker (PhD in anarchist history).
Also, the Spanish revolution is a lot more complicated than "the fascists won btw". Your tone again suggests it's not worth the effort of breaking it down for.you. I don't have any specific recommendations on that other than to open a book. Have a good day and go fuck yourself
Thats a lot of words just to surrender. Are you French?
Cringe.
But sure. Look through this thread for my comment on elite panic. It's more or less the answer to your questions about crime, failing government, etc. With some more handy links that you might find useful if you're ever determined to not be as ignorant as you currently are
They said x and you're somehow reading y.
Hierarchy isn't the opposite of anarchy.
It's just a type of rule. As in "an-archy", without ruler.
There's also "synarchy", meaning "joint rule or government by two or more individuals or parties", which I feel is far more what people here are advocating in the name of anarchism.