Why do you find privatization more valuable than communism?
I think that advocating for a market society just for the sake of engaging in the ritual of making profit is inefficient and greedy. The use of resources in a market economy would be based on the need to make profit, rather than the pure, unadulterated needs of the people. The wants and needs of the people can easily be satisfied by communist worker confederations that would handle the use of resources, which would run society based on gift economy, rather than a barter or currency economy. Wanted products and goods can be produced by the confederalized administration and distributed based on want and need.
I don't care about what's effective, only what is moral. I believe that fundamentally, a person has their own individual rights and they may not impede the individual rights of others. Everything else derives from that simple idea. If people can create a commune, that's great. I just don't think it would last.
Easton Evans
What would you consider yourself now?
Happy to Yas Forumsro!
For empirical evidence on the ability of anarchism to handle a large nation (which could further scale up through confederation, especially with the use of technology) check out revolutionary Catalonia in Spain and the Zapatistas in Mexico.
George Orwell visited anarchist Catalonia and wrote a book called "Homage to Catalonia", I'd recommend it. During the Spanish Civil War, millions of people rebelled and established worker's committees and communes across their nation. They got rid of the bourgeoisie and eliminated currency.
The Zapatistas rebelled against the Mexican state and won, and are still a nation to this day, 26 years later. They are composed of about half a million people. They are the longest surviving anarchist nation so far. I don't have a book about the EZLN, but you can read about them online, they're quite popular.
Robert Lopez
Except we communist anarchists have empirical evidence than anarchism naturally organizes through communism, see my examples here: What empirical evidence do anarcho-capitalists have? None. Consider that.
Kevin Cooper
I think its interesting that you mention confederation, I had though confederation was an inherently hierarchical institution eh
Leo Young
That's exactly what I'm talking about. I don't need any empirical evidence for anything. I don't want to prove anything to anyone. I'm just saying when the gov falls, I'm not gonna be the one in the woods wiping his ass with his hand. Get what I'm saying? To each his own, fundamentally. I don't care what anyone else does.
Thomas Powell
huh?
Aaron Cook
Growing up is fun but looking back at your former self is pretty cringe-worthy.
