The main left-communist argument against AESS seems to be that they still have wage-labor and commodity production. I have a few qurestions about this:
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Can they be abolished instantly, even in poor or middle-income countries?
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If not, what concrete steps can AESS take to slowly eliminate wage-labor and commodity production?
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How would things like resource allocation, and estimating efficiency of production, work in a socialist society that no longer uses money?
These seem like good ideas at the smale scale but what about big industries? To take an extreme, how would nuclear fusion research go on in a socialist society, or how are megafactories built and operated?
The leftcom answer would be to centralize it and have it have an elected government direct production rather than the market, and in the case of the Soviet Union, finish WWI, use the red army to depose the Social Democrats in Germany and then practice Gernan--Russian autarky while deposing capitalist governments across the world.
My answer is... different. As an anarchist I'd point out that we can meet human needs without either of those things, and that the hell of the factory isn't that it has a boss, but that it's a factory.