Anarchism, Technology and Organisation

[LebenIstKrieg]

I was wondering if their was a modern anarcho-communist society how would it deal in organisation becuase is their a chance that if it got so organized would it lead into a state? And another question why is their so much hostility to transhumanism? isn't it just human beings steering the course of evolution through augmentation? for instance if you look at robotics isn't it good that we could lift up heavy objects or replace limbs that have been lost or is their something I'm missing?

[NGNM85]

I was wondering if their was a modern anarcho-communist society how would it deal in organisation becuase is their a chance that if it got so organized would it lead into a state?

It's possible. Like Wendell Phillips said; "Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty." One would have to consistently apply the Anarchist principles. Sources of authority would have to be continually identified and subjected to a burden of proof.



And another question why is their so much hostility to transhumanism? isn't it just human beings steering the course of evolution through augmentation? for instance if you look at robotics isn't it good that we could lift up heavy objects or replace limbs that have been lost or is their something I'm missing?

Unfortunately, I think a lot of this hostility is due to the Luddite attitudes which have, most unfortunately, become more prevalent in the Anarchist movement, if there can be said to be such a thing. This is something that needs to be addressed.

Personally, I think transhumanism is the best possible outcome for human civilization, compared to the alternatives; plateau, recurrent collapse, or extinction.

[LebenIstKrieg]

what about federalism being incorporated and how would a 4th generation warfare anarchist army be maintained on the scale of say a western country?

[AK]

I was wondering if their was a modern anarcho-communist society how would it deal in organisation becuase is their a chance that if it got so organized would it lead into a state? And another question why is their so much hostility to transhumanism? isn't it just human beings steering the course of evolution through augmentation? for instance if you look at robotics isn't it good that we could lift up heavy objects or replace limbs that have been lost or is their something I'm missing?
Organisation doesn't automatically steer us to statehood. The state is the entity which uses force to protect both state property and private property and to maintain the current social hierarchy (which also includes maintenance of current property relations). Essentially, it acts to protect the ruling class through all possible avenues. If you don't have a ruling class (and this is where anarchist class analysis is necessary), you don't have a state.

As for transhumanism, I'm all for it.

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"To organize is not to give structure to weakness. It is above all to form bonds - bonds that are by no means neutral - terrible bonds. The degree of organization is measured by the intensity of sharing - material and spiritual"