On 2017-05-01 10:58, \0xDynamite wrote:
How does anarchy provide the high-level of organization needed to produce a car? From ore, to smelting steel, to engineering, to molding, to paints, batteries, upholstery and textiles, etc?
Anarcho socialists and anarcho communists have provided vague and evasive answers on this question, which answers I interpret as saying the central planning committee will command what is to be produced and ration what is to be consumed, as in Soviet Russia or today's Venezuela and North Korea. And if you do not produce as directed, or if you attempt to consume more than allotted, off to the gulag you go. Aside from not being very anarchistic, this does not work very well. The planners strangle themselves in red tape and when you go to collect your bread ration, there is no bread. Google Venezuela bread. Anarcho capitalists of course have a simple and obvious solution, and, for a change, will actually tell you their solution: Which is that the rich capitalist purchases the resources needed to build a car, purchases or builds the tools necessary to build a car, hires people to build cars, and tells them what to do. In this model all rights are property rights, and if you violate someone's property rights, private security takes care of you. With the rise of the reactionary right, there is now also an anarcho feudalist movement, which proposes feudalism with a weak king appointed from time to time by a board composed of or representing the aristocracy. Sounds awfully like an electoral republic with a restricted franchise, but the difference is that aristocrats make local laws and administer local justice. Now I am sure that anarcho socialists can point out all sorts of horrid problems with other variants of anarchism, but when there is no bread, no one is going to worry about those problems. The failure of socialism tends to be more fundamental and less abstract.