Message from @JoeTheSpaniard
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If you decide to let every commune be independent and to not trade
Congratulations, you've now made everyone's lifes worse than under capitalism
Communes could trade and should trade with each other. There is no reason for why they wouldn't negotiate with each other into unions of communes. Production would increase (As was seen in anarchist communes during the Spanish Civil War) because more jobs would be dedicated to production. Lots of jobs right now don't make anything useful. Workers in things like advertising, management, investment, and banking could be educated and work towards the production of food and useful items. Because of this reorientation towards production you would also see lower hours.
As for defence, the CNT-FAI was able to organize its forces democratically. They were crushed (like the other centralized armies in Europe) by German manpower. Soviets also played a role in the demise of the CNT-FAI because of their vanguardism.
You don't have to teach me about that
My family fought for them
But i gotta say they really didn't do a great job
Defending was easy considering they normally defended cities
Erected barricades and such which were a pain to cross
But when they decided to do something else
They failed miserably
This can be seen at the battle of Terol of 1937
They tried to make an offensive all the way north to relieve the basque country
They failed cause of a lack of disciplone
Coordination
And overall strategy
Germany only sent the condor legion
Mostly
The CNT was defeated by nationalist forces
As was the republic in its entirety
I'll say more than 200 people would be almost imposible to coordinate into dping something
And with those people you need personel to mantain the commune
Trade with other communes
And produce, a lot
As they will have to sell that to get other necesary goods
Don't get me wrong i do love cooperatives, but they work better under representative democracy
You mean like democratic socialism?
More or less
Not abolish the state
Having like
"market syndicalism" where cooperatives exist, but prices aren't enforced
What do you think about mutualism?
I'll guess you mean the political ideology
Amd not the biological relation
Well not really a big fan of
Trump is playing the dems and the media like a fiddle I swear...
@JoeTheSpaniard @ElectricSwine whats with the influx of rarted commies
Says the fascist
debates?
Yes