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Sure, the Zapatistas, the Apoists, and a few indigenous anarchist groups.

Forming gangs and militias is difficult when the status quo is good for most people resulting the majority being willing to use violence to avoid being ruled by gangs and warlords.



The zapatistas amd apoists appear to be effectively democratic militia, existing in opposition to outside oppressors.

The body of your post there seems effectively to be historically illiterate.


They are indeed directly democratically run militias, but that is exactly how anarchists would run a militia.

And they aren't just militias, they also run civil society.


At that point, how does the definition of anarchy vary from the definition of democracy?


It's certainly a spectrum from representative democracy to direct democracy to anarchy.




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