Anarchist law
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Template:MergetoTemplate:Anarchism Anarchist law refers to a concept about the law to use in anarchies. In an anarchy, law would have to exist in a way that it would be effective without the need for any authority.
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Examples of anarchist law
Non-hierarchical media law
"Indymedia", or Independent Media Centers (IMCs) has a de facto set of laws, called the "draft unity criteria" and the "draft membership criteria", which groups of people wishing to start autonomous media collectives are encouraged to follow. Apart from polite and constructive discussion in openly archived mailing lists, in the tradition of the Usenet, the action most closely resembling coercion is the possibility of removing the HTML link to a local Indymedia site from the official list of all local sites, but without actually closing down the site or even attempting to close it down.
Anarchist business law
The Digital Monetary Trust, an anonymous financial system that exists totally inside cyberspace, has voluntarily submitted to audits of its operations and third-party arbitration over disputes in order to maintain the confidence of its customers, because they have no recourse to any government.
Anarchist law in international political action groups
One example of anarchist law of an international political action coalition (which says that it is not an "organisation"), is the set of "Organisational Principles" of Peoples' Global Action. This includes rules to avoid hierarchy, for example,
- 4. ... No organisation or person represents the PGA, nor does the PGA represent any organisation or person.
Decision-making in non-hierarchical societies
Common techniques for decision-making, including decisions about the de facto laws themselves, among non-hierarchical societies include formal consensus, supermajority voting or consensus minus one.
See also
- anarchism
- consensus decision-making
- consuetudinary
- custom (law)
- jurisprudence
- law
- legitimacy (political science)
- legal system
- polycentric law
- rule of law
External links
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- Template:Cite web - Self-description of internal anarchist law in a 25-year old business
- Template:Cite web - an example of the legal system of an international political action group
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