How do anarchists propose handling public works, healthcare, etc?
Well, how we do it now?
During the Spanish Civil War, anarchists socialized many industries. What they found out was that you could just remove people from most management positions and continue work as before. Very rarely a manager was actually needed, and when it was they would simply elect one of themselves to fulfill the role for a while.
Talking about healthcare specifically, in many countries that have public healthcare, the system is already decentralized. Because it needs to be, otherwise they can’t properly answer the demands from their communities. Again, you just need to remove pointless middle-men and other workplace hierarchies (like physicians being more important than nurses), and stuff tends to get better.
If you’re an asshole in anarchism, you’ll fuck your neighbor’s life.
If you have a State or other giant hierarchy filling assholes with power, they will fuck everybody’s life. Case in point: every single billionaire alive.
Scientists in Belgrade came up with the idea of “planting” large tanks of water and algae in places where trees can’t grow. The tanks are 10-50x more efficient than a normal tree for the space it takes up and is in general highly sustainable, even creating excellent fertilizer in the process. You can skip about halfway...
And if these tanks are 50 times more “efficient” than a normal tree, how much more expensive is manufacturing and maintaining them than planting and watering a tree is?
That’s without mentioning the resources invested into building those oxigen farms. The fact that this is done on a rich country already tells a lot. Solar panels aren’t made with love and care, but minerals extracted from the earth.
Also, our problem isn’t lack of O2 or excessive CO2. Our problem is a series of ideas and decisions we make about how we treat the world we’re a part of. One of those ideas, is precisely efficiency above all other things. It’s the same idea that makes market speculators fall in love with “line goes up”. She even makes a point of saying how much more efficient than trees those are.
Sure, those are efficient in making the air safer for humans, but do they help with other local biodiversity? Do they help fixing the soil? Do they help the global ecosystem as a whole?
I think there’s also a certain power trip in the fetishism of revolutionary violence too. I think everyone that has practiced some form of combative direct action has felt this power trip. It feels good, but we must not let ourselves confuse the feel good vibes those actions give us with advancing our actual material goals of building a better world.
And we know how frustrated men love feeling powerful through anger.
I want to shove this article on some people’s faces haha
Transgender people can be baptized Catholic, serve as godparents, Vatican says (www.reuters.com)
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! (theanarchistlibrary.org)
If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police?...
The "Liquid Tree" is Very Cool Actually (youtu.be)
Scientists in Belgrade came up with the idea of “planting” large tanks of water and algae in places where trees can’t grow. The tanks are 10-50x more efficient than a normal tree for the space it takes up and is in general highly sustainable, even creating excellent fertilizer in the process. You can skip about halfway...
Why She Doesn’t Give A Fuck About Your Insurrection (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Here’s a short critique of manarchism