and if you try and go bottom first it will be stifled and crushed out by the people currently in power unless it is a coordinated action from a large percentage of the lower class to no longer recognize their authority and just do it.
That’s how we transitioned out of monarchism and into republicanism as the dominant form of government. It didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t even happen in a decade. It happened over centuries of slowly building up local power in a decentralized method, starting from one locale that decided to ignore the established processes to distribute resources under their immediate control as they saw fit that was then copied or adapted elsewhere, until each independent locality could begin to coordinate to overthrow the central authority of the king instead of just simply subvert it.
So long as they kept the king and his men pacified, they never bothered to look at what was happening underneath the hood until it was too late. The same principles apply today and in anarchist philosophy we call this building dual power and preconfiguration.
That’s how we transitioned out of monarchism and into republicanism as the dominant form of government. It didn’t happen overnight. It didn’t even happen in a decade. It happened over centuries of slowly building up local power in a decentralized method, starting from one locale that decided to ignore the established processes to distribute resources under their immediate control as they saw fit that was then copied or adapted elsewhere, until each independent locality could begin to coordinate to overthrow the central authority of the king instead of just simply subvert it.
So long as they kept the king and his men pacified, they never bothered to look at what was happening underneath the hood until it was too late. The same principles apply today and in anarchist philosophy we call this building dual power and preconfiguration.