law and libertarian communism

I believe ostracism (sp?) is a common remedy suggested. But I doubt that would work too well for everything. I like the idea of giving them a farm out of the way of everybody and telling them to stay there and not come back. They could go anywhere else, but not the community where they did whatever they did.

2 classic cop - outs there.

Well done chaps, you've got my vote! I'm SURE it'll be alright on the night, who needs any more assurance than that?

Well this is what I had in mind personally, though I think 'laws' brought about in this manner are largely incomparable with 'laws' in a bourgeois society. Their class function makes them a completely different thing. But then there are questions of what forms punishment takes, whether there are binding laws or whether the degree of antisocial behavior itself should be measured, whether we use restorative justice, how we collectively decide what constitutes antisocial befaviour etc.

I think that without private property and a class society much of what is understood as 'crime' would not be necessary or applicable, but nonetheless people will do bad things to one another. Its utopian to assume such behavior will completely disappear, people are far too complicated for that. And besides, revolution is a process, the mindsets of a capitalist society and its patterns of behavior will live on in a revolutionary period and will have to be dealt with.

I'd be interested to know how such problems were dealt with during the Spanish revolution, or in Zapatista territory now. I remember reading in Anarchism by Guerin some horrendous comment about how some comrade who felt an "excess of passions" for a female comrade (i.e., raped her) would be temporarily ostracised by the community, but it was a while ago.