Look, I love my beautiful anarchist ideas and all that, but I'll admit we don't hold a candle to tankies when it comes to public transportation infrastructure. Pretty tough to plan a good rail network without some kind of central agency to handle logistics and direct work.
He did, arguing that a bunch of different European companies from different countries had managed to create a pretty successful railway system solely through patchwork construction and free agreement rather than centralized direction. Presumably, if you could make a bunch of rail barons listen to reason without the state, why couldn't you make a worker-owned and worker-managed rail group listen to reason as well, and construct the Anarcho Railway?
I say this with love in my heart, but it seems to me like a very optimistic take in what's already a very optimistic book.
Look, I love my beautiful anarchist ideas and all that, but I'll admit we don't hold a candle to tankies when it comes to public transportation infrastructure. Pretty tough to plan a good rail network without some kind of central agency to handle logistics and direct work.
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doesn't kropotkin mention the rail system as a way anarchism has succeeded in the conquest of bread? it's been awhile.
He did, arguing that a bunch of different European companies from different countries had managed to create a pretty successful railway system solely through patchwork construction and free agreement rather than centralized direction. Presumably, if you could make a bunch of rail barons listen to reason without the state, why couldn't you make a worker-owned and worker-managed rail group listen to reason as well, and construct the Anarcho Railway?
I say this with love in my heart, but it seems to me like a very optimistic take in what's already a very optimistic book.
"Comrades, are rails not Facsist!?" - Meeting for the establishment of the Orenburg Commune railway