I personally believe that we need a single system that data is fed into that can analyze in realtime the needs and conditions of everyone on the entire planet, and coordinate distribution of goods and services. That’s possible with today’s technology. Amazon literally has the distribution method almost nailed. And honestly, nationalizing Amazon would be a great first step to this kind of thing.
Well, to have any type of society at all, you must have some level of organization. There are lots of anarchist models of “government” that involve federation, very similar to how Lemmy here works, honestly.
I think Bookchin is kind of my hero in all of this.
Yeah, a bit pedantic. I meant confederation, which is voluntary (as opposed to federation, which is not). But the idea still stands - why wouldn’t a group want to hook into the distribution system, especially if we make it super-efficient?
I mean yes that would be ideal, and I think it’s possible, it would just take a LOT of discussion and debate to actually get it up and running. Plus the issue of who is running the system itself to make sure we aren’t creating any hierarchies in the process.
I personally believe that we need a single system that data is fed into that can analyze in realtime the needs and conditions of everyone on the entire planet, and coordinate distribution of goods and services. That’s possible with today’s technology. Amazon literally has the distribution method almost nailed. And honestly, nationalizing Amazon would be a great first step to this kind of thing.
How do you reconcile that with the inherent decentralized nature of anarchism?
Well, to have any type of society at all, you must have some level of organization. There are lots of anarchist models of “government” that involve federation, very similar to how Lemmy here works, honestly.
I think Bookchin is kind of my hero in all of this.
I thought most anarchist models were based on confederation rather than federation? Or is that what you meant and I’m being pedantic?
Yeah, a bit pedantic. I meant confederation, which is voluntary (as opposed to federation, which is not). But the idea still stands - why wouldn’t a group want to hook into the distribution system, especially if we make it super-efficient?
I mean yes that would be ideal, and I think it’s possible, it would just take a LOT of discussion and debate to actually get it up and running. Plus the issue of who is running the system itself to make sure we aren’t creating any hierarchies in the process.
Oh absolutely. But I think we’ve seen lots of open-source projects work in a similar fashion.
For sure
For sure