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Hi #anarchists #anarchism, I’m curious and would appreciate some reading materials that address this question:

As I see it, Anarchism has existed throughout history, almost everywhere humans have ever been, in the form of “tribes” or communes, in subsistence communities, and in indigenous cultures around the world for thousands of years. Yet much of them repeatedly collapsed in the face of European colonization in the last 500 years or so, to Mongols, Macedonians in the further past, and so on.

So my question is: how does a modern Anarchist society defend itself against external powers (who are decidedly not Anarchist) who would colonize it for its labor or resources, without also building a military and a command structure, and its governance which manages its personnel and resources, i.e. the beginnings of a State?