A thought experiment. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Imagine you are a person fighting in an anarchist revolt. You have captured a sizeable chunk of land but the front line has grown too large and you can't progress further. The state that you have been fighting approaches you with an offer: They recognise you as a sovereign (however that would look like) entity but you have to give away most of the land you've captured. They will leave you with the primary city and enough surrounding land to feed everyone.

What would be your position? Would you be willing to make a deal with the state?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Anarchism.

And I take you haven't noticed that the working class doesn't give a damn about anarchism?

The biggest driving force in any society is culture.

If that was true they'd be using musicians for forced labour in prisons... not low-level drug dealers.

at which point anarchic spaces become a vital component to in the process to collectivise the economy.

How close do you think we are to collectivising the economy? The corporations are bigger than ever, organised labour has never before in history been this thoroughly co-opted, and the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich is accelerating... can you explain how these incremental "anarchic" lifestyle changes is reversing any of this?

Culture is nothing more than the ideas we hold and ideas are a hell of a lot more easier to change than political or economic realities.

Why do you assume that it's even possible to change ideas independent of political or economic realities? History suggests that it actually works the other way around.

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