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    It’s better because it’s a society based on mutual aid instead of exploitation. There are different theories about how exactly it will look like or how you get there. But overall most agree that it’s a non-hierarchical society, based on self-management and federalism. Decisions are made through direct democracy. If you want to read more there is a good chapter about it here Final Objectives: Social Revolution and Libertarian Socialism.

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          The legal means also protect property. Otherwise someone who is stronger can just take whatever they like from someone who is weaker.

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            I specified private property (absentee ownership), which is distinct from personal property (active usage ownership).

            A house that I live in: personal property. A house I rent to someone else so they can live in it: private property.

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              That doesn’t change anything, does it? What’s stopping people from kicking me out of whatever place I am living in because they want it instead?

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                The self-defensive mechanisms established by the community I live in.

                Anarchism doesn’t mean that humans can’t form societal structures. It just means that decisions are made bottom-up instead of top-down.

                Hierarchical society doesn’t stop anyone with “higher rank” from claiming my house e.g. to build a highway or coal mine.

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                  How would an anarchist society stop someone from claiming your house to build a highway or a coal mine? “The self-defensive mechanisms” is just police again you just call it differently and it can do whatever it likes.

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                    No, the self-defense mechanisms aren’t the same thing as “police”, since the former is structured bottom-up and the other one is top-down.

                    An anarchist society would be organized democratically so that the people affected by policies have a say in these decitions proportional to howeit affects them.