Live in an anarchist community, to see it in practice. I learned a lot from that experience, my main take away is that I don’t ever want to live in a community again.
Fair enough, for some people the trade-offs are not worth it.
However, most of today’s self-proclaimed anarchist communities struggle a lot with people’s deeply ingrained hierachical conditioning, both in the sense that they intuitively fall back on it if challenged and in the sense that some people that are over-represented in such communities through self-selection have deep traumatas and lash out at anything they percieved as threatening their autonomy. Both combined often make a very explosive setting, but this doesn’t really invalidate the idea of an anarchist community by itself.
Live in an anarchist community, to see it in practice. I learned a lot from that experience, my main take away is that I don’t ever want to live in a community again.
Fair enough, for some people the trade-offs are not worth it.
However, most of today’s self-proclaimed anarchist communities struggle a lot with people’s deeply ingrained hierachical conditioning, both in the sense that they intuitively fall back on it if challenged and in the sense that some people that are over-represented in such communities through self-selection have deep traumatas and lash out at anything they percieved as threatening their autonomy. Both combined often make a very explosive setting, but this doesn’t really invalidate the idea of an anarchist community by itself.