@openbookshelf: Nervous about posting this one... I'm a political scientist but my personal beliefs are based more on lived experience than professional or scientific expertise. Thank you Helio @Jupiterbaal for providing the food for thought and to every single person who's ever commented asking me to explain myself, ideologically. It's not easy! #politicalscience #phdlife #creatorsearchinsights politics science
How do we have things like universal healthcare and social security/universal basic income with only hyper-local governance?
2025-10-03 15:53:10
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JimCrz 🌍 :
I see the appeal of anarchism, but what about national infrastructure? How could power networks or clean drinking water come about without a national authority to oversee it?
2025-10-03 21:47:17
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Chris :
Some dynamics you expressed seem parallel to experiences living in my Christian community.
2025-10-19 12:28:59
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Mark Perkins :
I’ve been trying to self identify my own personal politics for the last few years. Watching this set off the light bulb in my brain. I think this is me as well. Thank you!
2025-10-19 12:53:03
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Rolling Petetato :
I really like the idea of anarchism but as a very introverted autistic person, I struggle even imagining how I could be part of a community like yours ngl
2025-10-06 03:16:11
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rumnraspberries☭ :
sorry if this comes off rude, but how are you a political scientist and putting liberals on the left? genuinely confused here.
2025-10-05 14:38:40
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Xopher Reauxhaus :
As someone on the socialist side, this is beautiful.
As an introvert, this sounds so very tiresome.
2025-10-04 18:06:44
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davidlee8647 :
...OK, my only critique to this is the flotilla. How do you square that the Israeli military had to be more careful because of the Italian and Spanish government. As much as I can appreciate your viewpoint about local advocacy, there is a time/place for government.
By the way, not all Libertarians are right wing. I think the Americans have hijacked the word libertarians - technically you'd be libertarian from what you said. It's just in current parlance it seems the Americans have moved the understanding of what libertarians are to their specific meaning - and ironically these people are not even libertarians (i.e. they don't believe in individual agency, because if they did some of the rhetoric from that space wouldn't be a thing)
2025-10-07 02:32:23
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M 🍉🇺🇳 :
Good, but anarchism can never really survive nor work on a larger scale. we have entrenched capitalism, that would destroy any real anarchist society before it even have a chance. And anarchism can never work on a larger scale and on needed industries that are crucial for society and for defence against capitalist forces. PRC is a case in point.
2025-10-03 21:41:37
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Joshua Graham :
Can you help me understand the difference for you between community and anarchism? Many things you listen seem like an inherent part of a healthy community, many of which exist in multiple different governments. I’m struggling to see how that kind of community and a large, federal government are inherently at odds. They seem like both necessary for a healthy society. Insights to share?
2025-10-06 01:28:12
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Questionable Choices :
To be fair I never heard about this sort of community be called anarchism. I only ever heard about anarchy as "down with government! Do whatever you want!" and on this bases everyone shows how that will go to hell. I am all for community though. I would be interested in hearing more about why you say a small communities don't need law and order? How then to deal with rules, rule braking, cruelty, and all the bad stuff people do sometimes. Do you mean like community gets together and decide what to do an each situation, or we really have no laws at all and personal decision what everyone does with it and we just hope it will be good and will work?
2025-10-04 11:06:19
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nwahally :
As a socialist who will always advocate for a world government over localized primitivism, I can still value an anarchist's analysis and expertise.1/3
2025-10-04 19:14:25
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Theomanic :
Why/how do you think small community governance can avoid the corruption of big government? And how can we expect small community government to properly deal with large issues (ie. climate change, pollution). I have a thousand questions….
2025-10-03 17:48:35
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Tezcatlipoca :
...but the only way to anarchism is through socialism, that's been my belief.🟥⬛🐈⬛
2025-10-08 02:57:31
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coadadrqn :
Interesting how even after having lived in China, and seen closely the workings of the administration, you still believe it would be better with more decentralisation.
I guess we are who we are, and we can't change that. The best we can hope for is for who we are to happen to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
2025-10-06 01:10:53
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LoB :
as a Marxist I totally agree on the fact that money is in many ways our damnation especially as ,as described in Marx's manuscripts of 1844, it has become a mean of measuring someone's worthiness rather than a good to make exchanges easier and that on this note we should rather reverse to the "favours economy". Yet as a student of politics and economy I cannot fathom how a system with many tiny autonomous organizations could keep up with the rithms and demands of globalization. I imagine that a system like this might end up recreating a situation similar to that of "free market competition" in which one local entity might be better at supplying others and thus hinder the growth, or even bring to extinction, other communities that produce the same good or provide the same service.
2025-10-03 15:55:39
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V.i.l.l.y :
I can't really finish the video, for...this may sting...anarchism is an utopia, specifically invented for liberals to make them feel as if they care for the common good. But ln reality they don't... there's it
2025-10-04 01:09:02
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tboss :
Thank you so much for sharing this. I wonder if neuro-diverse people are more likely to be anarchists?
2025-10-08 00:16:32
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Besceawian :
It was meeting the WOMBLES that fundamentally convinced me where I stood.
2025-10-04 08:14:57
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MountainMan :
The only problem I have with radical decentralization, as an American, is these smaller the polity, the more easily corruptible they can become as well as the problem with economies of scale. I find there’s a place for larger polities such as nation states for very specific goals which should be carried out at the more local level to address more localized concerns. Of course my problem with the corruptibility of smaller polities comes with the acknowledgement that it’s because of monied interests being above the law and if there’s a way to solve that problem, I’d be more open to more decentralization
2025-10-22 07:19:26
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pad :
i always assumed she was a liberal, but anarchist also makes sense.
2025-10-06 00:40:22
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zbbro :
My issue with anarchism is that it tends to reinvent the wheel. Small scale? Sure. Similar to communist kibbutzim, it can work as well as--if not better than--a larger system. But those benefit from a national infrastructure and defense and would struggle without that.
2025-10-04 02:38:31
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Xavier :
I would not have guessed this one
2025-10-04 05:04:50
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Knox Study :
I thought you’d stopped posting. First post that’s been on my FYP for months (a year?). Hopefully with this comment, the algorithm brings me back.
2025-10-03 15:48:12
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Danielle :
Something I'd be interested hearing further about from you is about disability. If anarchy depends on community, those fundamentally unable or less able to connect with that community, have no resources. And as someone who depends on a lot of community aid, even when it is able to be accessed there are major accessibility barriers etc. Obviously for someone like me robust community that saw mutual aid as critical would help, but I think about people sicker than I am, or more limited by their autism than me. Some people have very little in terms of friends and family and very little resource to get that (much less larger community aid).
2025-10-12 05:55:30
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