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  * Section I - What would an anarchist society look like?
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  ** I.1 Isn’t libertarian socialism an oxymoron?
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  *** I.1.1 Is socialism impossible?
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  *** I.1.2 Is libertarian communism impossible?
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  *** I.1.3 What is wrong with markets anyway?
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  *** I.1.4 If capitalism is exploitative, then isn’t socialism as well?
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  *** I.1.5 Does capitalism efficiently allocate resources?
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  ** I.2 Is this a blueprint for an anarchist society?
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  *** I.2.1 Why discuss what an anarchist society would be like at all?
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  *** I.2.2 Will it be possible to go straight to an anarchist society from capitalism?
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  *** I.2.3 How is the framework of an anarchist society created?
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  ** I.3 What could the economic structure of anarchy look like?
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  *** I.3.1 What is a “syndicate”?
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  *** I.3.2 What is workers’ self-management?
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  *** I.3.3 What does socialisation mean?
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  *** I.3.4 What relations would exist between individual syndicates?
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  *** I.3.5 What would confederations of syndicates do?
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  *** I.3.6 What about competition between syndicates?
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  *** I.3.7 What about people who do not want to join a syndicate?
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  *** I.3.8 Do anarchists seek “small autonomous communities, devoted to small scale production”?
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  ** I.4 How could an anarchist economy function?
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  *** I.4.1 What is the point of economic activity in anarchy?
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  *** I.4.2 Why do anarchists desire to abolish work?
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  *** I.4.3 How do anarchists intend to abolish work?
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  *** I.4.4 What economic decision making criteria could be used in anarchy?
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  *** I.4.5 What about “supply and demand”?
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  *** I.4.6 Surely anarchist-communism would just lead to demand exceeding supply?
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  *** I.4.7 What will stop producers ignoring consumers?
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  *** I.4.8 What about investment decisions?
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  *** I.4.9 Should technological advance be seen as anti-anarchistic?
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  *** I.4.10 What would be the advantage of a wide basis of surplus distribution?
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  *** I.4.11 If libertarian socialism eliminates the profit motive, won’t creativity and performance suffer?
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  *** I.4.12 Won’t there be a tendency for capitalist enterprise to reappear in any socialist society?
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  *** I.4.13 Who will do the “dirty” or unpleasant work?
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  *** I.4.14 What about the person who will not work?
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  *** I.4.15 What will the workplace of tomorrow look like?
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  *** I.4.16 Won’t a libertarian communist society be inefficient?
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  ** I.5 What could the social structure of anarchy look like?
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  *** I.5.1 What are participatory communities?
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  *** I.5.2 Why are confederations of participatory communities needed?
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  *** I.5.3 What will be the scales and levels of confederation?
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  *** I.5.4 How will anything ever be decided by all these meetings?
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  *** I.5.5 Aren’t participatory communities and confederations just new states?
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  *** I.5.6 Won’t there be a danger of a “tyranny of the majority” under libertarian socialism?
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  *** I.5.7 What if I don’t want to join a commune?
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  *** I.5.8 What about crime?
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  *** I.5.9 What about Freedom of Speech under Anarchism?
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  *** I.5.10 What about political parties?
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  *** I.5.11 What about interest groups and other associations?
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  *** I.5.12 Would an anarchist society provide health care and other public services?
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  *** I.5.13 Won’t an anarchist society be vulnerable to the power hungry?
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  *** I.5.14 How could an anarchist society defend itself?
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  ** I.6 What about the “Tragedy of the Commons”? Surely communal ownership will lead to overuse and environmental destruction?
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  *** I.6.1 How can anarchists explain how the use of property “owned by everyone in the world” will be decided?
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  *** I.6.2 Doesn’t any form of communal ownership involve restricting individual liberty?
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  ** I.7 Won’t Libertarian Socialism destroy individuality?
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  *** I.7.1 Do tribal cultures indicate that communalism defends individuality?
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  *** I.7.2 Is this not worshipping the past or the “noble savage”?
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  *** I.7.3 Is the law required to protect individual rights?
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  *** I.7.4 Does capitalism protect individuality?
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  ** I.8 Does revolutionary Spain show that libertarian socialism can work in practice?
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  *** I.8.1 Wasn’t the Spanish Revolution primarily a rural phenomenon and therefore inapplicable as a model for modern industrialised societies?
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  *** I.8.2 How were the anarchists able to obtain mass popular support in Spain?
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  *** I.8.3 How were Spanish industrial collectives organised?
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  *** I.8.4 How were the Spanish industrial collectives co-ordinated?
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  *** I.8.5 How were the Spanish agricultural co-operatives organised and co-ordinated?
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  *** I.8.6 What did the agricultural collectives accomplish?
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  *** I.8.7 I’ve heard that the rural collectives were created by force. Is this true?
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  *** I.8.8 But did the Spanish collectives innovate?
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  *** I.8.9 Why, if it was so good, did it not survive?
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  *** I.8.10 Why did the C.N.T. collaborate with the state?
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  *** I.8.11 Was the decision to collaborate a product of anarchist theory, so showing anarchism is flawed?
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  *** I.8.12 Was the decision to collaborate imposed on the CNT’s membership?
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  *** I.8.13 What political lessons were learned from the revolution?
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  *** I.8.14 What economic lessons were learned from the revolution?
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