That’s not the criticism that’s being made here. The criticism is not in how the power plant is organized, which the sketch doesn’t talk about that at all. The criticism is that you’d need people in the plant and if that work isn’t rewarded or paid in some way, they’re not going to be able to provide for themselves.
At the social level: recognition and respect from community members, status grounded in contribution rather than wealth, reciprocal relationships and mutual aid, and the experience of belonging.
Mutual aid is already acknowledged in the sketch. I don’t see any answer to the problem of doing it at scale.
If you need to provide hundreds of people with mutual aid for decades, then you’re probably going to have to have some sort of system to ensure people contribute to it and it goes to the right people. Congratulations, you just reinvented government, and contradicted the meme.
The fact that they’re considering denying access to basic human necessities like food indicates that they aren’t anarchists. That would constitute a form of hierarchical authority, which is not permissable.
Unless of course they’re all anarcho-primitivists and don’t believe in large-scale agriculture, without which you couldn’t feed everyone. In that case, they’re just stupid :P
https://anarwiki.org/wiki/Tightly-Coupled_Systems_Claim
That’s not the criticism that’s being made here. The criticism is not in how the power plant is organized, which the sketch doesn’t talk about that at all. The criticism is that you’d need people in the plant and if that work isn’t rewarded or paid in some way, they’re not going to be able to provide for themselves.
https://anarwiki.org/wiki/Motivations
https://youtu.be/cLBospQs9Hk
Yeah I know, I watched it.
So what is your answer to the problems it raises?
Mutual aid is already acknowledged in the sketch. I don’t see any answer to the problem of doing it at scale.
If you need to provide hundreds of people with mutual aid for decades, then you’re probably going to have to have some sort of system to ensure people contribute to it and it goes to the right people. Congratulations, you just reinvented government, and contradicted the meme.
Mutual aid networks can be scaled up indefinitly tho
How? What’s to stop anybody from coming up and saying, “I work with Dicknose up at the power plant, give me a food?”
The fact that they’re considering denying access to basic human necessities like food indicates that they aren’t anarchists. That would constitute a form of hierarchical authority, which is not permissable.
Unless of course they’re all anarcho-primitivists and don’t believe in large-scale agriculture, without which you couldn’t feed everyone. In that case, they’re just stupid :P
Depends on which economic model the people choose. Anarchism is not a system, its a framework under which new systems can be freely developed.