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@RD4Anarchy That’s just one example of a hierarchical structure where someone in a leadership position could be elected by popular vote and easily deposed. A lot of Native American societies also did this for band leadership.
Some Greek city-states also did it on an emergency basis.
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@RD4Anarchy They aren’t perfect examples because only a subset of the city’s population (free, property-owning males) was enfranchised, but they didn’t have a representative democracy, they had a direct democracy.
When there was a war or something, Athens would elect a Tyrant who served for a six-month term and had certain extraordinary powers.
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@RD4Anarchy At the conclusion of the six-month term, the demos (the voting body of city) might re-elect the Tyrant or elect a different one if the emergency was ongoing.
If it was over, they might let his term expire.
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@RD4Anarchy We don’t really have any concept in our popular awareness of hierarchical structures of government which were either situational or where recall was really easy and power was only concentrated as long as everyone else wanted it to be, which is why a lot of people think it’s a binary between “hierarchy” or “no hierarchy” as opposed to a continuum or something with a lot of different options.
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