Anarcho-Bicyclist Conference Manchester April 2011

Can you give me an example of how you think this might play out, I am not so sure you have highlighted an insurmountable problem here.

Got to go to bed. How have I not highlighted an insurmountable problem. This inevitable result would then mean that you no longer have anarchy, just a different set of powerful people/groups than the ones you started with. As an example you only have to look at the history. Humans developed from a state of anarchy and this is what has happened. If you now want to go back to a time where no one holds power it would be even worse and happen even quicker since those with money con buy highly destructive weapons.

If all you want is a change from the way things are now then fine, but it couldn't stay anarchic

Can you outline who these people might be, what power they would be trying to grab, how they would grab that power and so on?

The alpha males, we are pack animals and the pack has a leader. Social leaders, the strongest and smartest, feudal leaders, kings etc

There are numerous other ways to keep the peace apart from coercion/authority.

Erm, no there isn't. Name one that can keep peace amongst an entire society without authority.

I'd say a version of anarchism might be an answer, quite what form it would take I couldn't say (but I'd think certainly more laissez faire capitalism/voluntarism than anarco-communism).

I am not quite sure what we mean by capitalism in this context ("...system is found that takes advantage of human nature better then capitalism") as capitalism as practiced tends to be anything but capitalism, it's statism steering a horribly distorted version of a free market.

In this context, a system which allows ownership of land and property, and the right to trade these things. And, unlike laissez fiare capitalism, the ability to tax the purchases and income. True, capitalism in most developed countries is far from free trade and highly controled by the state. But laissez faire capitalism, as natural a system as it may seem has no way to help those who are dissadvantaged. Maybe those with money would set up the necessary chairties but that has not been shown by history in any country.