flix on Nostr: The HRE is a 1000 year long case study in decentralisation. 800 to 1806. More than ...
The HRE is a 1000 year long case study in decentralisation. 800 to 1806. More than 300 Kleinstaaten (“little states”) in the empire, some covering no more than a few square miles.
If you want to learn how a decentralised world could work, with almost every aspect of rule being local, this is a good period to study in depth. It answers most of the questions often made of anarchy. Like "how would you organise defense without the State?" or "who would build the roads?".
Now imagine this, but with local democracies, republics or open associations instead of princes and you can see a path to a stateless world.
If you want to learn how a decentralised world could work, with almost every aspect of rule being local, this is a good period to study in depth. It answers most of the questions often made of anarchy. Like "how would you organise defense without the State?" or "who would build the roads?".
Now imagine this, but with local democracies, republics or open associations instead of princes and you can see a path to a stateless world.