An interesting answer to "how will we get insulin and/or bananas in an anarchy?" (when-if.com)

submitted 1 year ago by alex@jlai.lu to c/anarchism@lemmy.ml

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

An anarchist community cannot produce insulin - for the very same reason a capitalist or fascist community cannot. When we're talking about industrialized production, we are talking about things a whole lot bigger than merely communities. Simply focusing on community is myopic - a more relevant question would be, "How can an anarchist factory produce insulin (and other medicines)?" It's already a question far more grounded in what already exists.

Also, there is no such thing as "leaderless" organization, and there is no such thing as "leaderless" anarchism.

[-] unfreeradical@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

a more relevant question would be, “How can an anarchist factory produce insulin (and other medicines)?”

Yes, and it seems the actual point of confusion is simply how an anarchist society may achieve objectives that require larger scale than the level of local community.

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