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As for bureaucracy under anarchism, that’s a contentious topic.
For anarcho-communists, it’s probably going to be very similar to the examples that a communist will give you.
For syndicalists, the level of organisation or coordination would occur between “workplaces” (I can’t use the term factory here for obvious reasons and “unions” can blur some lines that are less than ideal because a syndicalist understanding of their ideal system is not a “unions sitting on top of the political economy/unions sitting at the side” sort of deal like we see today.) There should be larger all-sector unions which represent each industry in a syndicalist society that would coordinate and collaborate with other all-sector unions, so let’s say that there’s new medical technology which is being implemented in hospitals but it places significant demand on electricity or telecommunications - the all-sector healthcare union would need to communicate this increased demand with the all-sector energy union or all-sector telecommunications union to coordinate building more infrastructure or increasing energy production etc.
For anarcho-primitivists - it’s basically going to be tribal. As for healthcare, guess I’ll die 🤷
This gets contentious because it’s not really considered to be orthodox anarchism but some of the more comprehensive theory on anarchist/anarchist-adjacent bureaucracy is found in Murray Bookchin’s Libertarian Municipalism and, by extension, Abdullah Ocalan’s Democratic Confederalism (which is what the YPJ and PKK are striving to achieve in Rojava in Syria currently.)
I think the reason why you can ask 10 anarchists what bureaucracy will look like under anarchism and you’ll get 11 answers is because in terms of ideology, anarchism is very heterogeneous.
Okay, I think I understand that anarchism is very heterogeneous. It does throw me off a bit, though. For example, I heard Anarchist A say billionaires should be put into re-education camps, while Anarchist B says we don’t do that; that’s not anarchism. How do anarchists find common ground on issues when there is such a diversity of thought ? Would they split into different communes that would basically operate under different laws and rules ? Extreme example an Anprim and a Syndicalist dont share much common ground or do they ?
Anprims share little common ground with other anarchists, especially in regards to their conclusions or their prescriptions for society (if that makes sense). Like, they might agree with say 75-90% of what another anarchist holds as their political beliefs but what the anprim believes needs to happen as a solution will be wildly different to the other person’s program.
There’s virtually no common ground between what a syndicalist society would look like and what an anprim society would look like. The commonalities would mostly be negative, in the sense that there would be the absence of capitalism etc., than positive, in the sense of what would be present, in their respective societies.
How do anarchists find common ground on issues where there is such diversity of thought?
This is probably worse than a non-answer but how those conflicts are negotiated is itself another arena for diversity of thought.
For someone who is a platformist, for example, they might expect to see rigorous debate within anarchist society about what to do with the billionaires but that once a majority has been reached on what needs to happen that the dissenting factions need to fall in line.
A different type of anarchist might find the plurality of communes as a viable option.
It gets super complex and often there’s no clear terms for how diversity of thought should be meditated except when it comes to different anarchist tendencies that have a very explicit political structure like with platformism or libertarian municipalism.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to me. I feel like I’m pretty much onboard with anarchism. One thing that does bother me, though, is anarchist stances regarding AES and generally anarchistic geopolitics. I also have a feeling that some of them don’t dislike the West enough. I’m aware that many of the anarchists on Hexbear have great politics. I’m just under the impression that outside of there, it’s not that great (this is true for socialists as well, though). I guess I’m also not that vehemently opposed to states as most anarchists are; I just think anarchist organization is neat.
