yeah, that idea of “no rulers” is turd in the anarcist’s punch bowl.

it’s a logically invalid anthropology: what it means to be human, what a human being is

you cannot make the individual prime

the individual is only coherent as a concept under an umbrella of social relations.

man is intersubjective

so necessarily we exist in a hierarchy

and the hierarchy means someone is on top, what is that if not a “ruler”?

other anarcists describe an aversion to non-voluntary relations of power, and since those relations are literally baked into human existence, the goal of getting rid of them is another way of saying they want to remove the stain of human nature.

it’s just not a valid account if reality.

it’s just another version of “wouldn’t it be nice if reality wasn’t reality”

don’t take my word for it.

do the logic yourself

following the truth leads to the same destination