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As you already know, one notable question in Occupy circles is what to do with people who are just there to egotistically do what they want without any regard for what the rest of the community thinks. Specifically, I am referring to the type of people who notoriously play music almost 24/7 and whose actions disrupt general assemblies and make the overall atmosphere very noisy, painful and annoying.

When you appeared on the Julian Assange Show at RT a couple of months back, Assange basically asked you and other Occupy activists who were there what should be done to hecklers like that. Assange, being a free market "libertarian" (read: proprietarian), proposed the possibility of using a private police force to deal with hecklers. (Or something along those lines, so please correct me if I'm wrong.) You and the others basically didn't answer this question. I'm curious if you didn't answer because an answer would have taken too long to answer in a short timespan on television or if you genuinely didn't have an answer at the time just yet.

So my question to you is: Do you think that it is justifiable to force people out of an encampment or circle? Some anarchists agree with this. Others don't. I want to know your position on this.

In solidarity, An Indonesian anarchist

This link has a short PDF that provides institutional proposals for ways that communities can live without the police. Each proposal includes case studies in which the proposal was tried out in real life, along with their advantages and disadvantages. Hope it helps.

Thanks a lot.

I look forward to reading your upcoming mini book on the nature of bureaucracies. It is a criminally under-studied topic in philosophy and the social sciences (and in art too, considering that Kafka's works are the only significant attempts to use art to convey the oppressive nature of bureaucracies).

I take it the book will contain references to Bakunin's prophecy on the Red Bureaucracy and the New Class?

(I mean, as far as I know, his prophecies on the dangers of authoritarian socialism and managerialist liberalism are basically one of the highest points of anarchist history in terms of theory.)