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People can define anarchism, freedom, and democracy any way they want. It's a semi-free country. For the sake of communication, here is how I look at things.

By the state, I do not mean (as others do) any system of conflict resolution, collective decision making, or even defense from anti-social actors. I mean a socially-alienated bureaucratic-military-police organization which stands above the rest of society and dominates (not part of the definition, but this is inevitably tied to a ruling economic elite). I believe that collective decision-making and social coordination can be done through the self-organization of the people without such an institution--in a free and cooperative society. This is what I mean by anarchism and by radical democracy.

I do not think that humans could live without society (community, collectivity, whatever). This can be done very differently from the way it is done under capitalism, the state, and patriarchy. But there must be some way to organize ourselves in a manner consistent with freedom. There must be collective decision making, rather than decision making by a few, set over the rest of us. I call this radical democracy. You are free to call it whatever you want (I don't really care).

Some comments are beyond weird. "You sound just like your hero Gorbachev, you probably also like jazz like he did." This is from the Trump school of making things up. But the writer also says, "Democracy only ever lasted in Athens for 200 years." If by democracy we mean non-state face-to-face group decision-making, then it existed for tens of thousands of years in hunter-gatherer societies (primitive communism).

As for the friendly comments by two posters on the question of age and understanding, I will say that I am too young, by one year, to make the 75 year cut off for being in the group to get the next vaccine shots. My patience is not "infinite." Somedays I feel like an old Jew.