Anyone else hear/recall the part in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” with King Arthur talking to the Dennis, outside the autonomous collective, where Dennis calls it a anarcho-syndicalist commune?
Seems a good example of what that might be like (not really, but…)
I know I’ll take LOT of flak for this (and don’t get me wrong: some of my best friends at the university were anarchists and I got along really well with them) but seems to me the endless bickering of the members of the anarcho-syndacalist commune is a good portrayal of what most anarchists seem to be most adept at.
That reminds me- there is also Dennis saying that he’s being oppresed because of the “violence inherent in the system”, that goes for anyone anti-statism though, right?
“We take it in turns to act as sort of an executive officer of the week, but all the decisoins of that officer have to be approved at special bi-weekly console, by simpl majority for the case of purely internal affairs, but by 2/3 majority in the case of…”