Ew. Fuck China. I do admire that they can just do stuff when needed, but again that’s just a function of authoritarianism and the surveillance state keeping everyone in line for Big Brother. The current US government is almost as bad overall, better in some ways, worse in some ways. There are a lot of state governments that are doing good stuff in terms of solarpunk and democratic socialism though.
edit: I forgot I was on ml and anything short of blind cult-following of any even remotely communist state is despised. China isn’t really even communist, no more than the NSDAP was socialist.
Ew. Fuck China. I do admire that they can just do stuff when needed, but again that’s just a function of authoritarianism and the surveillance state keeping everyone in line for Big Brother. The current US government is almost as bad overall, better in some ways, worse in some ways. There are a lot of state governments that are doing good stuff in terms of solarpunk and democratic socialism though.
edit: I forgot I was on ml and anything short of blind cult-following of any even remotely communist state is despised. China isn’t really even communist, no more than the NSDAP was socialist.
In the most abstract sense: Is organisation without authority possible?
In a concrete sense, yes
No it’s not https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
What appeals to you about that text?
How authority is defined and how Engels actually logically provides an answer to the question whether organization without authority is possible
A short ‘logical’ essay can give any answer in an abstract sense, but that doesn’t discount empirical examples.
Always seemed to me like Engels begs the question, takes “anarchy = chaos” as a starting assumption.
Empirical examples… that you have not provided?
It’s trivially easy to think of examples of “organisation without authority” in nature, in history, in software.