Havnt looked into the actual thinking behind anarchism. Played a lot of 2b2t.org back in my day so thats my reference point. Please enlighten me on your thinking.
Havnt looked into the actual thinking behind anarchism. Played a lot of 2b2t.org back in my day so thats my reference point. Please enlighten me on your thinking.
Everything is based on humanity vs. An established order telling you what is right or wrong. IMO it is a simple, but flawed logic because it would mean that some of the most atrocious things can be done to people because it can be. For example, a thief steals a loaf of bread and the owner of the store can gather a mob to lynch a thief. Anarchy has the great potential to administer unproportional justice.
Now with that being said, democratic solutions also have unproportional justice in very many cases when it comes to race and tax bracket, but the idea of proportional justice is present more than Anarchy. If you wanted a comparison
You shouldn’t come into an anarchist community and start answering questions about anarchism when you clearly haven’t done your homework.
But hey, since OP is interested in how anarchy would work, let’s go over how such a society would respond to the scenario that you’ve painted. Vigilante justice is never impossible in any society, but that doesn’t mean it would be tolerated. The requirement to have disputes arbitrated by a neutral third party is pretty universal. What differentiates anarchy is that arbiters are freely chosen by (possibly delegated) mutual agreement, instead of the state forcibly inserting itself into every dispute as the supreme arbiter.
Let’s say the thief was a member of a commune. Since the thief is dead, their dispute with the baker and the lynch mob can be claimed by their next of kin, or closest equivalent. Either way, we’ll say that the dispute gets delegated to the commune as a whole, which collectively handles security and dispute resolution for its members.
The baker has a contract with a company (probably organized as a workers cooperative) that offers security and dispute resolution services. For simplicity, let’s say that the members of the lynch mob also use this company’s services.
The commune and the company might have different sets of rules that their members agree to, but it’s reasonable to assume that they both recognize:
From there it’s just a matter of negotiating what restitution is owed to whom. Perhaps the commune and the company can’t come to an agreement on what exactly is owed, so they agree to defer to a neutral arbiter of their own. They may both be members of a local federation of dispute resolution bodies, which would simplify handling this.