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    Default non-doctrine communist/anarchist litterature

    I am looking for good books about how differents social and logistics communist/anarchist models work in general.

    i am not looking for a book that utterly praise communism or a doctrine book, i just want to understand how it could work out in real life.

    I dont really need a 700 pages explanation about why communism kick ass, i just want a book that explain me how social and economical(logsitics) structure would work.

    i am looking into something more pragmatic and preferably non-marxist leninist.

    tanks anyway!
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    You actually need to understand why anarchists oppose capital and landed property and monopolies and so on before you can even begin to advocate an anarchist society. For example, under modern political theory, "small government" (Minarchism) means allowing corporations to run amok and make slaves of us all, with people having no control over the means of production. How this is freedom is beyond me, but understanding why you should be critical of this is a pretty easy thing to get.

    Something closer to anarchism would be like Guild Socialism.

    I just got this book by Russell:



    In it he documents anarchism and socialism, and there is even a section on the type of problems the future will bring (i.e. now, the book was written in the early 1900s) and how an anarchist society could solve them.

    Another good place to start would be to read Chomsky on Anarchism.

    The Anarchist FAQ is one of the most detailed FAQs on the internet while still being easy to understand. It also has section that explain what anarchism would look like.

    I also recommend the wiki article "Anarchism and capitalism" to see why anarchists oppose the free-market.

    The truth is, it's impossible to know exactly what anarchism will look like because people/cooperatives/federations/guilds are free to make their own decisions and run their communities according to the principles of self-government, they are just not allowed to dominate and exploit the populus at large.
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    I also recommend the wiki article "Anarchism and capitalism" to see why anarchists oppose the free-market.
    Some anarchists do not oppose the free-market.
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    Those leftists who supported free-markets were attempted to put free-trade theory into socialist theory; all of them, including Proudhon and Tucker, and especially Spooner (a member of the IWW) understood socialist theory fully and tried to distance themselves from a socialism that keeps the state in practice.

    Modern free-marketeers know nothing about socialist theory and attempt to put socialist equality principles together with free-markets, which doesn't work and is illogical. Thus they aren't socialists or anarchists. It is designed to splinter the left by making leftists look like a bunch of idiots who don't know what they're supporting or opposing, thus reinforcing statist capitalism.

    He asked for some non-doctrine outlines of anarchism, and modern free-market anarchism is a bunch of teenagers playing on the internet, not a theory.


    Other recommended books:

    Anarchism by Woodcock

    Community, Anarchy, and Liberty

    Anarchism Paul Eltzbacher
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