Anarchism is a rabbit-hole. Many anarchists, especially from that era, are arguing for a communist or socialist world.
I don't, these days I tend more towards free market anarchism, which some have called anarcho-capitalism, but I'm not completely sold on the name. This was previously impossible to achieve because money printing had to be centralised. Then came Bitcoin, and this changes everything.
I do not think the entire world should be ancap. Communism or socialism are utopian IMO, but people should be free to associate in such a community, even though I think the free market has proven to be a great force to maintain fairness, competition and growth, so anarchism based on it could actually flourish.
Why do you think communism is impossible? It promotes solidarity, mutual support and the satisfaction of needs. Besides, it would just require everyone to work together, on whatever they can and want. With today's technology, many tasks could be automated, which would free the way for leisure. Members who want more than they need, could get it by themselves or exchange it with others who wish to do so; those who do not want to collaborate, could not do so understanding that they would not get that benefit from the community.
Greed is a big factor. Communism will be possible one day in the future through technology, but we're not there still IMHO. The "fully automated luxury space communism" meme might not be such a meme a thousand years from now.
That said, communism in small scale societies and communities works. In large scale, money and trading works better.
There's a lot of reading I'm doing on this topic, so don't take my word for gospel 😄 it's been fun chatting with you about this stuff
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