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Kropotkin Has a Posse
13th March 2007, 05:38
Hello, my main query here today is how a judicial system might be formed in a libertarian socialist society, specifically an anarcho-syndicalist or council-communist one.

I know that by using popular opinion to determine right and wrong you're essentially reverting to the authoritarianism and favouritism and priveledge of the old society, so trial by the entire town might be a lousy idea.

So how is an objective judicial system formulated the gurantees due process, fair trials, and the rest without things like legal loopholes, lynch mobs, or laws in general?

Whitten
13th March 2007, 16:59
There's no perfect system for justice. Your always going to have one problem or another. Its just a matter of trying to find a happy medium.

Demogorgon
13th March 2007, 18:41
Yeah well things like lynch mobs are hardly ideal, are they?

I guess the concept of a randomnly selected jury would have to stay. I guess also a "court" would still need rules and prcedures to follow to try and keep it impartial.