In a world without government, but where vaccinations are effective1, how would anarchists achieve a near 100% vaccination rate?

1 = i’m trying not to trigger any antivaxxers among us.

Follow up from https://lemmy.ml/post/86422

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    if i understand anarchism correctly, there is no central authority such as a government to coordinate anything. depending on the how many people you need to vaccinate, it could be as easy as only 4 people needing it without any kind of authority needing to circulate it, or if theres a larger population of over, for example 100, there’d need to be some kind of temporary organization that could circulate the vaccine to all 100 people. but if we’re talking about on the scale of a country in a state of anarchism, then getting a 100℅ vaccination rate without organization is highly unlikely to happen. you need someone to safely transport the vaccine all parts of the country, someone to set up a centre for administrating the vaccine, guards to stop people from simply stealing all the doses, ect.

    tldr: depends on the scale of the society, the more people the less likely to get 100℅ without organization

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        22 years ago

        our definitions of both anachism and communism are different, i know anarchism as “chaos” and “without organization”, communism as he said i think of as “authoritarian communism” .

        i think that with both youd still need some kind of organization to distribute the vaccines, for “communism” you could use a works union or political party, as for “anachism” youd make a organization for helping distributing the vaccines. (also who decides what is and isnt an unnecessary hierarchy?)

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        • @southerntofu
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          i know anarchism as “chaos” and “without organization”

          That’s called anomy. Anarchy is the absence of domination, not the absence of order.

          (also who decides what is and isnt an unnecessary hierarchy?)

          Nobody. No hierarchy is necessary. I think there’s a lot of confusion around this expression. Some anarchists refer to “necessary hierarchy” as a power imbalance that’s not unjust, that is, which does not imply domination/exploitation.

          For example, someone may have more knowledge of a specific topic, or may have more physical force to achieve a certain task. It’s a form of power, but does not necessarily lead to injustice.

          For example, a teacher does not need authority over students, just like a doctor.