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So if they choose to form a court and have police, is this still an anarchy? Are you starting to get where we're leading to? This is libertarianism, not anarchy.
Again, Anarchism is the rejection of illegitimate authority. That authority is decided by the people, if the people individually agree to the authority it's not illegitimate. If they choose to live in a society with a court and police that's still Anarchism because they individually chose it.
Doesn't sound like anarchism to me, but to an idealized form of democracy that's unattainable. Anarchism literally means a form of societal organization without rulers and authorities, a free for all, where the power of government is relativized in each person (since each person is their own master, right?). Why would anyone care what the other anarchists want or think? The only rule in such a case is the threat of violence and might makes right.
Don't believe everything you are told. Anarchism
I don't refer to anything, I'm just coming to logical conclusions based on what you're telling me.
The point I'm getting at is that true anarchism is a performative contradiction, because some basic rules and hierarchy of authority is presupposed in any society. Now if you call some libertarian rule-based government anarchy that runs contrary to what anarchy represents. It's still people agreeing to give authority to another person or institution over themselves. This is what democracy is in theory although not in practice.