Editorial
Editorial: TOTW: New Laws in the New Normal (11/5/21)
by Anonymous
We may be past the worst, or not. The economic and climate crisis are still playing out. It remains to be seen whether and (if so) how capitalism will recompose for a new wave. If there’s an upturn then there may well be some social liberalisation or attempts to imitate aspects of anarchism in a tamed form. (I say this because of the similar process with liberalism in the nineteenth century and socialism in the twentieth). Archaic and pointless laws (e.g. against drugs and sex work) might be repealed. If there isn’t an upturn then the state might survive but with reduced resources, or it might collapse. In either case the gap between what’s legal and what’s possible will grow.