I guess similarly, how do you actually deal with the "Individual people are not actually naturally equal in their capacities", problem?
Are these even questions that people who are Anarchists care about, or what?
I'm genuinely not trying to start a "thing" here, these are just questions that I feel like I've honestly just never got substantive answers on regarding Left-Anarchist political philosophy.
Reeducation camps to the title question
Im not sure what the "naturally equal" question is about. Anarchists recognise differences in knowledge, skills, capabilities, etc
Who runs the reeducation camps?
Non-heirarchical guards
Who selects the guards? Who trains them? Who develops the procedures? Who comes up with the reeducation material? Who coordinates the emergency responses? I have seen non-hierarchical emergency responses and it's always a clusterfuck that exacerbates the emergency
I think that answer was supposed to be facetious.
Ah thanks, it's hard for me to tell sometimes
Go and argue with the guy who took the first question seriously too
run by the community, with pre-established programs, hierarchies, etc as decided by the community. this doesnt mean that everyone in the community will decide how the reeducation camp functions exactly day to day. it means everybody had a say on how the decision making was to happen (i.e. the whole community decides how the reeducation camp will be structured, who will be drafting and overseeing the reeducation programs, who will be conducting safety audits and with what frequency will take place, etc)
Most people don't have the time to become an expert on that and 5,000,000 other topics related to running a just society to ensure that no abuse is taking place
I agree, this is basically Zizek's criticism of anarchism: "most people don't want to be politically mobilized all the time and would rather cede power to some bureaucrat to handle it for them"
Well if under capitalism everybody is too crushed busy demoralised tired alienated to care enough about collective endeavours theres just no chance that could change under socialism
Exactly, that's why they delegate tasks to whoever they see fit. I specifically said not to think everybody is involved in everything. Some tasks they may decide to allocate through a lottery system, some tasks they may decide to allocate through general elections, some tasks they may allocate by panel of experts. Its not that difficult if you remember these are adult human beings.
You'd be surprised at how much work that administrative organizing and delegating is, especially when there's no process or standards in place.
Worked at a place like that, about 3 people ended up doing 90% of the work, got burnt out, quit, leaving no one to do anything. I had to stop doing 90% of the work and spend the next 6 months trying fruitlessly to get anything organized until I got burnt out and quit.
They recognize them, but what do they do about them? How do they seek to systematically limit the negative impacts of having lower-than-average social, or cognitive abilities, for example; especially without a formal State to redistribute resources & prescribe/enforce rights?
a society built on anarchist principles is not free from rules, systems, organisation, etc .
i assume you are an ML, your final destination is the same as us anarchists, so maybe you already have answers to these questions.
i think this series of brief videos by noncompete can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzEl5RIMp7M&list=PLCcemL_x8RtdtFuib1Wl6VwyuYOEDb5Wv
You know as well as I do that this is not a problem with dependent people existing, but a problem with capitalism (or more generally, any stratified money-based economic model).
A large fraction of the population is willing to assist those who are incapable of looking after themselves, and always has been. The difficulty is when they can't afford to do it. And that's pretty easily solved by expropriation.