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From: nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Anarchy
Message-ID: <21881@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 30 Nov 90 19:50:57 GMT
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     Historically, anarchy doesn't work; it breaks down into banditry or
feudalism.  But computer-mediated anarchies can work, as we see with
USENET and FIDO.  This is a major suprise.  Suprises like this are rare
in the history of human behavior.  A new way for large numbers of 
people to do something together over a considerable period of time has been 
found.  The previous development in that direction was the invention of the
stock corporation, and that changed the world.  So might this.

					John Nagle