a decentralized egalitarian society was implemented with over 3 million people in 1936 Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. By all accounts it worked extremely well, and did not suffer from authoritarianism or genocide.
Simply not true. Maybe every time we try a new system as a reaction to capitalism, but people have been self-organizing and participating in gift economies for as long as there have been people. You literally wouldn’t exist otherwise. Mutual aid is a factor in evolution
Might as well say republics don’t work because the monarchists keep attacking them and monarchy doesn’t work either because the Roman Republic no-diffed everything that touched the Med.
Problem - every time we try another system, it turns into strongarm authoritarianism, militarism, and genocide.
a decentralized egalitarian society was implemented with over 3 million people in 1936 Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. By all accounts it worked extremely well, and did not suffer from authoritarianism or genocide.
Simply not true. Maybe every time we try a new system as a reaction to capitalism, but people have been self-organizing and participating in gift economies for as long as there have been people. You literally wouldn’t exist otherwise. Mutual aid is a factor in evolution
Might as well say republics don’t work because the monarchists keep attacking them and monarchy doesn’t work either because the Roman Republic no-diffed everything that touched the Med.
China quietly moves the tanks out of the room and pretends you didn’t see.