I don’t disagree with this, but I wasn’t really talking about specialisation in a complex division of labour. This makes administration more complex but righting transgressions is not a specialist task per se (it’s not rocket science). Also, some hunter gatherers had sophisticated ‘legal’ processes
The higher education system: what are the problems and potential solutions? New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social@gillwyness.bsky.social@richmurphy-econ.bsky.socialrepec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeob/cepeo...
Agree w this, particularly how it understands that negative polling about immigration follows from Democratic leaders failing to publicly defend it. A further reason fighting on immigration is essential is that it's the foundation for Trumpist apocalypticism & authoritarianism, not just a policy...
I’m in @tnr.bsky.social arguing for a full, alternate, message-disciplined competing vision of immigration pushed forcefully and cohesively by national Dems
Kamala Harris apparently believes—wrongly—that she has no influence on anti-immigrant sentiment in America, because she has effectively capitulated to MAGA messaging.
That whoosh sound you just heard is me sending the final final book manuscript and all the beautiful images it contains to Oxford University Press and the book about the international politics of looted art restitution will be coming to a neighborhood bookstore near you..... next summer I hope?📚🏛️
So there are alternatives, but they require more community involvement, less commercialisation of social relationships, laws that are written by those subject to them, and thereby laws that reflect the needs of society.
Sure, people exploit systems. But it is our collective responsibility to fix that, not an individual incentive. So paying tax for cops is an (sort of conscious) abdication of personal responsibility. The more responsibility you abdicate or alienate, the more likely it is the cops end up in charge
But you don’t/shouldn’t need a law to be allowed to bring someone to justice (e.g., civil rights movement), and relying on the cops isn’t an option for vast swathes of the world’s populations.
Assuming that person wants to stay in or around the group, or the group/society want to pursue this (most assault does not get charged), then yes, someone will have to detain that person. In times gone by these would be elected members of the community, rather than employees of ‘the state’.
If it’s a social norm that’s been broken, you don’t need a judge (but you can elect one if you like). Rather, the arbiter is society, and society has to reckon with itself, not have a third party ‘decide’ according to some law no one wronged ever wrote. This ‘transformative justice’
1/ The anarchist would start by say ing that the injunction against assault is a social/moral injunction, not a legal one. In other words, whether there’s a law or not is immaterial.