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

As i said communes have realistically 2 choices

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

no debates

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