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Larde OP wrote

which an anarcho-communist world would not be

Why do you say that?

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

I think that anarcho-communist critiques of authority do not go far enough, and they carry a lot of the baggage of the worst parts of the left. There are many ways that authority congeals that are not well considered by anarcho-communist critiques.

I'll have to keep it very short, but there's plenty of reading on any of the things I'm talking about if you want to take it further.

How technology requires levels of specialisation in specific individuals and groups that tend to produce loci of power.

How agriculture allows for the emergence of cities, which in turn tend to alienate city-dwellers from their resources and their waste, creating growth-based societies that demand ever more resources to maintain themselves, which tends to amount to wars over resources.

How leftist forms of organisation themselves promote representational politics that create institutions that outlive their immediate usefulness and continue to function despite the changed needs of the individuals participating in the institution.

Those are a few off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many more. But each of them correspond generally to very general and shallow critiques of technology, civilisation, and leftism respectively.

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