The Modern Workforce and Anarcho-Communism

[JazzRemington]

I think it is beyond any debate that the modern workforce is largely "scattered," meaning they don't work within the same town, village, city, community, etc. where they live. For instance, I live in city A but I have to commute to city B to go to work.

With the understanding that all work will be the focused within the community, how do anarcho-communists propose a solution to this problem, if it even is one to begin with? How would it be possible to have a self-sustaining, autonomous community if some of its members have to go to another community to work?

[The Feral Underclass]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2006, 09:46 AM
I think it is beyond any debate that the modern workforce is largely "scattered," meaning they don't work within the same town, village, city, community, etc. where they live. For instance, I live in city A but I have to commute to city B to go to work.

With the understanding that all work will be the focused within the community, how do anarcho-communists propose a solution to this problem, if it even is one to begin with? How would it be possible to have a self-sustaining, autonomous community if some of its members have to go to another community to work?
Your definition of the word community is very limited.

Any work you do in a communist society is going to benefit your community, whether it's in a power station 40 miles outside of your community/city. It maybe necessary to commute, in which case you commute.

Not a problem really.

[enigma2517]

Your small town might still be part of a greater communist "polis".

I'm sure we can confront similar problems through federation. How else could we expect it to work on a national or even international level?

Nobody said a city has to be entirely self sustaining either. It'd be too much work and not very efficient to move that stuff around. Silicon Valley could still remain Silicon Valley. It is more likely that people, rather than capital, will move around.

You could go join a collective in a particular industry that you like. Or propose that a new one be started in your area. Either way, nothing says that we have to be completely self-sustaining.