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Hey loiterhard

I'm perhaps guilty of a similar sort of uh… not trolling exactly but I wasn't sure how to ask the question at first.

I came around here, grilling all the post-leftists a bit, arguing that everything they claim to hate is beside the point because we're anarchists so we already have the anti-authoritarian critique and maybe we can separate problems of power from problems of economic relationships (or do away with them completely).

Basically, the best answer seems to be - there's really no major problems with a theoretical anti-authoritarian primitive communism but it's almost impossible to find spaces for it to exist in the modern world on any kind of scale. The economic forces that automatically attack it sooner or later are too powerful and it wouldn't have much ability to defend itself because it only works on micro-scales. As soon as you try and scale it up, all the problems.

Therefore, underwhelming solutions like the TAZ were dreamed up and the dichotomy between fighting and "dropping out" came about back in the day. Are we trying to make a little hidden oasis of anarchy or transform the way everyone relates to each other? Can anarchists even participate in the latter except as cannon fodder and eventually getting shot by their former "comrades" for being too disagreeable? That question may not be answered definitively but it doesn't look good, ya know? heheh