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It’s easy to have a utopia when you live in a village where everybody knows each other. You don’t have to look to indigenous peoples for that. There are plenty of villages around the world where communities still thrive.
How do you achieve that in cities of a million people or countries of a hundred million? No one has figured that out yet because all the mechanisms we’re born with for building trusting, reciprocal relationships do not scale much more than a couple hundred people at most.
When people aren’t slaving away to grind in a system that does its best to destroy community, you can build up a community. You don’t need to know all million people, only those around you.
Anarchism deals primarily with empowering and fostering local community and has figured this out for centuries. Whenever and wherever it is implemented we see people start to thrive again.
But as long as chuds like yourself keep saying “it’s impossible, we have to keep doing as we are” and maintaining this destructive system it will never be achieved.
You build anarchism where a community already exists. You don’t build a community of strangers who regard each other with disdain and suspicion.
You’ve already assumed away the hard part. Getting everyone to work together when they already trust each other is the easy part.
Try building a system that works when not everyone agrees with the same goal!