Alright. So I am new to anarchism and I have yet to read any fundamental books about the subject and I’ve just been using “online articles” to research the principles and history of anarchism so far. So I won’t pretend I’m not super ignorant on this subject because I am.

From what I understand under an anarchist society, there would be a lot less incentive or reason to even commit crimes. Assuming we’re not talking anarcho-capitalism, there’s no currency. No poverty. No incentive to steal. The socio-economic factors that make some people more likely to commit acts of violence or what we call in our American democracy “crime” (crime legally won’t exist under anarchism either) just won’t exist.

However- poverty isn’t the cause of homicide or violent crimes all the time. Sometimes it’s because someone fucked someone else’s girlfriend or something. Sometimes, people are just psychopaths and just get a kick out of being sadistic. There’s always gonna be people causing problems. So, without a state or hierarchical authority to judge and “deal” with these people- then what? Does this look like the collective agreeing on some kind of banishment? I would love to know.

And if I’m coming out of any wrong assumptions about anarchal thought please correct me! Seeing how flawed democracy is in my own country has made me intrigued by alternate kinds of societies.