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Anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. - David Graeber
Not many people have that courage. That is why anarchism fails at scale, just as does socialism. They depend upon a species of Homo that doesn't exist yet, one with core instincts for egalitarianism and cooperation rather than self-interest and competitiveness.
The atavistic mammalian part of our brains needs to die off, like the appendix.
@VulcanTourist @kin ... maybe that's where anarcho-syndicalism comes into its own. All it really needs is to sow the seeds... just by asking people in advance, "what do you think you'd do if push came to shove?" Most people are actually decent and, with such a show of solidarity, would at least think twice about obeying in advance...