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So a question that's worth asking of these anarchists we've been talking about,

you know, the kind of anarchists that would say

we're better off without the police, without laws, without a central authority with a military

warding off other countries invading. A question the skeptic has to ask these people is if all these ideas of yours are so great,

why in recent history every time they've been tried have they eventually failed?

We mentioned the Seattle strike last time the Ukrainians post world war

the Spanish civil war and Peter Gelderloose in his book

mentions dozens of other moments in history with anarchist principles in action

but one common theme among all these examples is that they all ended up collapsing.

What does an anarchist have to say about the fact that their track record here isn't exactly great?

Well, the answer to that is that there's specific reasons each of them went south when they did.

Admittedly, sometimes it was a tactical error by the anarchists themselves.

Other times, like in the case of the Seattle strike, sometimes things just reverted back to the

way they were before there was a need for people to organize themselves.

Most of the time though, in recent history, regardless of the specific reasons each of these experiments

ended, you could say that a major factor is that there's really just been a lack of solidarity with other anarchist societies.

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