PsychoVision wrote:How would you go about making roads when someone's land is blocking the direction you need to build your road in?
In America, the government could just take the land they needed.
Folks seem to be missing the concept of Anarchy. First of all, land as property, purely in itself, depends on a state to assign it. Real estate by definition derives it’s validity from the state. Anarchism recognizes property by possession through use. It is difficult to imagine the amount of land that a household would be using blocking a road in an Anarchistic social order. If it is communal property, then it would be up to the commune to assign priorities of use based on total consent by all affected members of the commune.
Secondly, what do we need a road for? If it is automobiles, I might point out that automobiles are a very recent development in Human existence. No Anarchism that I am aware of has ever needed a road. Footpaths, perhaps, but those are made simply by people walking on them.
Roads are only one of the necessary problems which an Anarchism would have to resolve in order for automobiles to exist. Even ox carts require a complex social order.
If that seems problematic, try to think of a real Anarchism which has used ox carts. Even the primitive Andean roads were the products of a highly evolved civilization.
Yes, I can envision an Anarchism with roads and even automobiles, but there are many more complex problems that must first be resolved before we even get to that point. The primary problem is defense against civilized states. Once you have any thing worth taking, Civilized social orders will take it by force. Before any highly developed Anarchistic social order can exist in the same world as civilized states, the problem of defense against aggression must first be resolved.
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler”, A. Einstein
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” A. Einstein.