I think they dream—laudably! --- of a post-scarcity utopia in which ethics has been solved, there is functionally infinite care for everyone, etc
IMO the problem is that that is best conveyed by “in an ideal world, we wouldn’t need the police”, which is trivial but also not quite as shocking or snappy a motto. But people are interested in what we should and could do now; and besides, IMO, the socialist/anarchist position that if only we removed injustices like capitalism or whatever suddenly everyone would just be always good and nice is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that. As long as there is more than one human on this planet there are chances for conflicts of interests to form and thus crime to be beneficial. This doesn’t mean that the problem can’t be vastly ameliorated, but blaming everything on capitalism or such makes the latter just a kind of religious boogeyman, and is not serious analysis.
IMO the problem is that that is best conveyed by “in an ideal world, we wouldn’t need the police”, which is trivial but also not quite as shocking or snappy a motto. But people are interested in what we should and could do now; and besides, IMO, the socialist/anarchist position that if only we removed injustices like capitalism or whatever suddenly everyone would just be always good and nice is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that. As long as there is more than one human on this planet there are chances for conflicts of interests to form and thus crime to be beneficial. This doesn’t mean that the problem can’t be vastly ameliorated, but blaming everything on capitalism or such makes the latter just a kind of religious boogeyman, and is not serious analysis.