An Anarcho-Communist FAQ
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- A long overdue response to this video:
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Kapitalism 101:
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The minimum wage does not cause unemployment:
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Basic Income experiment in Dauphin:
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Michael Albert - Participatory Economics:
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Anarchism and healthcare
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Radical Routes:
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I used to be a social democrat who thought they were a "socialist" but I later converted to a libertarian socialist. Conversion is possible, the hardest part is helping them overcome the anti-socialist propaganda drilled into their head by the media, the education system, etc.
When I was a social democrat, I used to think that communism was state power over the economy, capitalism was CEO control of the economy, and that socialism was a happy middle where the state and CEOs balanced each-other's control out so that the people could rise up. When I learned the real definition of socialism and communism and anarchism on tumblr, I started to find interest in libertarian socialism because I was already both anti-capitalist and anti-statist. I'm sure there are many people who would be libertarian socialists if they knew the true meaning of the words and the basic idea of decentralization behind it.
Move to Europe for a few weeks and the propaganda will be ob-literated
Eric Haag THATS LITERALLY!! ME! The same exact process, IN that order
The problem with ancom is that every ancom or anarcho syndacalist "place" eventually became a state again. and a terrible one. North korea was once ansrcho communist now they are the most statist in the world. Juche is basically national socialism taken 3 generations too far.
Spain and portugal and other euro regions were ancom and become states again failing in both world wars and eventually instilling socialist capitalism to "level" things out.
The only true ancom place left in the world is some fucking commune in california. And its inhabited by tweakers who dont even know wtf ancom is.
its amazing how revisionism can radicalise people into stupid ideologies.
An ancap converted? I must be seeing things...great video
There is hope.....
Nah, we are fucked up.
I was a minarchist libertarian before. It's possible to go to the opposite side of the spectrum. I went from a right-wing libertarian to a social democrat then democratic socialism and I am now a libertarian socialist.
boi i went from civic nationalist to minarchist libertarian to ancom rn xD
Most sensational news I have ever heard...
I enjoyed BadMouse's video. One of the few rare times an 'anarcho'-capitalist has actually bothered to find out what we believe in.
Edgy Zapatista Ancaps 50% of the time are an'caps'. in large, they do not actually have a great understanding of what capitalism is, or the history of capitalism. In large they have been taught in American public schools, and for that who can really blame them.
***** And 'I can control my body, so I must own it!'
***** They think voluntary action is capitalism for fucks sake. I used to think it too, but I stopped being 15.
***** lol. It's obscene who these MRAs and ayncraps will be so against abortion. I thought they believed you were jointly owned by your parents, and they could do whatever the fuck they wanted to do to you?
***** MGTOWs are pretty homophobic, so probably don't consider gays to be one of them.
If I was gay or asexual, I would love snookering them like that. :)
I'm an anarcho-capitalist. Haven't started the video yet. I figure I should explore all types of anarchism before I make my mind up on where I stand. This is my first attempt at true open mindedness. Wish me luck ;)
Benlikesdamusic so where do you stand now?
Why not voluntaryism as a philosophy and anarcho capitalism as mere economic theory? Thats whe re i stand
Good luck stayin ancap when u realise how irrational it is😂
Good luck!
Anarcho capitalism doesn't make sense. You're just a right libertarian.
You know, with a good chunk of those questions, I can see that, even at that point, ***** was already heading in an anti-capitalist direction, even at the time of that video.
deathpigeon I think he may have spent a lot of time gradually pushing in that direction
***** I was raised a liberal, but picked up a grab-bag of reactionary (islamophobic, misogynistic, etc.) opinions at Middle School age from internet atheists, like Thunderf00t and The Amazing Atheist. I think Steve Shives started pushing me in the direction of being anti-religious but not being a reactionary dick about it, and LSR introduced me to Anarchism.
Socialist Party of UA-cam Name one misogynistic opinion that Thunderf00t and TheAmazingAtheist have.
***** That reddit thread is what I tried to link to, but i put the wrong one.
This is the one I meant:
i.imgur.com/v8q0J.png
Socialist Party of UA-cam What about Thunderf00t? What has he said that you perceive to misogynistic? Also, what misogynistic opinions did you personally have in middle school that TAA and Thunderf00t caused you to believe?
I would also disagree with you on Che Guevara. What he helped replace, Batista's horrific regime, showed the world that their another way than capitalism. Castro's regime produces more doctors than any other country, has almost 50.50 gender split in its parliament, has free healthcare for all and one of the best healthcare systems in the world, has free education up to and including doctoral degrees, defeated the apartheid South African regime twice in Angola and started the downfall for that government, Cubans live longer than any other people in the Americas and they have the lowest infant mortality rates. All of this while under siege from the most powerful nation the world has ever seen only 90 mile away.
What Che helped fight for could possibly pave the way for anarcho communism, it's already halfway there. The Cuban people are highly educated and have the skills to replace the role of the state.
***** I have no problem in using the state against itself in order to improve the conditions of the working class. With Marxist Leninism, the vanguard party made up of 'professional revolutionaries' takes control on behalf of the working class. It was a way to steer the state towards eventual marxism. Unfortunately Lenin died before he could anything other that what he achieved and the Cuban embargo prevented Cuba from having free open elections for the first while after the revolution.
The CIA were openly trying to assassinate revolutionary leaders in Cuba and implant dissenters into the society. Then when Castro clamped down to stop the US seeping back in the shouted dictator and tyranny which was simply untrue.
To address your last point, foreign businesses in Cuba have to enter strict deals with the state to operate. If it improves the lives of Cubans I see no problem.
jplb96 I know I'm a month late here and I don't really know much about Cuba (apart from what I learned in school, that is), but do you know why so many Cubans try to get into America? I genuinely want to know.
Irrational Shark Like a lot of other countries economic reasons and economic freedom. It's not a rich country but with the limited resources it has it does much more than thought possible. I'm from Ireland and not long long ago we were ranked as the best country to live in, yet we have 10,000 of thousands leaving every year. We are a far wealthier country than Cuba yet we have many times the number leaving for the US than Cuba does.
The embargo meant that many it costs huge amounts of money to leave Cuba, so people leave on rafts and boats etc. With the loss of the USSR, it lost large amounts of subsidies and when it collapsed, Cuba went through an extremely tough time for a number of years.
jplb96 Che was a psycho who liked to murder people for pleasure, you have no idea
Can you do a video on the Spanish Anarchist Revolution?
Hey Cameron, how do you view of the egoist Max Stirner and his rejection of things like rights and other liberal spooks of the mind ?
Also, what's your take on post-left anarchism, post-anarchism and so on?
That guy has earned himself a subscriber
Pushon Bhattacharya thanks dude
***** I'll sockpuppet for ya! :)
Socialist Party of UA-cam Pardon?
***** Sorry to disappoint you, man, but I have 1,219 sock accounts.
Socialist Party of UA-cam I still don't understand?
I'm a convert from anarcho-capitalism too. Please don't hate on them!
Why? They are complete scumfucks for the most part.
Any chance of making more Q&A videos, possibly along the lines of steve shives' 'You Had to Ask' series?
This was very nice of you to do. And even in your previous vid, when you went against his opinion, you stated clearly that you had nothing against him personally. It is good to see you know who to pick as enemies. We can convince the kind and the caring, to see that simply helping one another, is a better way for the future. All in all... good one man.
But when it comes to people like them "amazing" atheist there is no hope there.
Roland White Well duh, but we can still try to drag as many of the kind ones "over to our side", right?
I'm not saying they can't but they have to be open minded and people like him are anything but.
Roland White Sure, no argument against that here.
When i was in high school i was a socialist. More as a reaction to the heavily right wing area i grew up in. I moved to chicago and fell into ben shapiro joe rogan jordan peterson. All of that ilk. Now i am further left than ever. But the thing that really pulled me back, was coming to terms with my empathy. And im not sure how you can convince someone to feel empathy.
I can't remember at what time exactly, but I believe it was between April and May that many teachers in Canada went on strike, and I can't decide whether I should be sympathetic simply because they are part of a union, as many teens were unable to graduate at the time as they couldn't get enough credits at the end of the year. As a teen myself, I would find this to be very much a nuisance that I couldn't graduate on time and start setting up for college and so on, but should I be sympathetic toward the teachers because I'm anarchist/socialist?
Could you link in the description Radical Roots? I am interested in starting a housing co-op in Portland.
Left Side Libertarian Done
Awesome. Thanks.
How did you become a member of the IWW, because I would like to be a member myself.
If you are in the UK:
iww.org.uk/
If you are elsewhere:
www.iww.org/
I live in the UK, thanks for the information. On an unrelated note, what do you think of the UA-cam channel secular talk.if you don't know who he is, he's a person who thinks that capitalism and socialism can somehow mix and communism is statism.Libertarian Socialist Rants
What is your view on non Leninist forms of Marxism such as council communism, left communism, Luxemburgism, etc?
***** Left Communism isn't exactly non-leninist.
There's the Dutch-German line, which is pretty much councillism but has different nuances, such as the necessity of the Vanguard Party. For example, the Gorter and the KAPD vs. Antonie Pannekoek.
Then there's the Italian-line lead by #BasedBae #Bordiga which is absolutely Leninist to its core. Hell, it actually criticized Lenin for being too liberal (www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm). And before you say #Stalinist, Bordiga said up to Stalin's face that he was the "Gravedigger of the Revolution" and lived.
Luxemburgism isn't an actual line of communism or anything. It is mostly adopted by Trotskyites( like LaRouche, though he's not the norm of Lux-Trots) or Wiki-leftists.
Mordechai Folger Really? I always thought that the left Marxist movement consisted of Marxists who opposed Leninist methods of attaining socialism. The more you know! Thanks for the info :)
***** Well, the more you know. And knowing's half the battle won.
The other half is the violence of the class struggle uprising and ending the rule of the bourgeoisie.
***** The 80s were a hell of a drug.
Theory is still important.
If we want to solve problems, we need to have a thorough and coherent picture of what's really at the root of them, so we know what the appropriate actions are to take.
just found this channel and it's already one of my faves
OH SHIIIIT I GOT A MENTIONNNNNNNNNN!!!
Hey Cameron, you say that it's essential for an anarchist to support feminsim. However do you believe that all feminists must support anarchism?
Kevin Polucha I think so, yes. The main reason being that women's liberation is not meaningful if institutions of economic exploitation which subjugate most of the population remain intact. Feminism without anarchism would leave most working class women to be exploited at the hands of bosses.
+Libertarian Socialist Rants Would you not say that's more in the same line of thought as All consistent anarchists should support gender equality, all consistent feminists should support anarchism and economic equality?
There are an awful lot of feminists who limit their advocacy of equality to gender, who say that so long as men and women can be exploited on equal grounds, then all is fine, rather than removing the exploitation altogether.
+Libertarian Socialist Rants I agree with everything you have said in this video
+Libertarian Socialist Rants However on a technical point I kind of disagree with you about "atomized individuals" and why people would work under communism. In general I think you have to give people incentives to work, but the reason to work would basically be guaranteed production of necessary goods and services, which would be tradeable on the basis of your employment (maybe I haven't thought about it fully) if you are able-bodied that is
+Libertarian Socialist Rants Guaranteed income is still a good idea though
where do i start ? how to help make change and learn more about ancommunism
What's the problem with bitcoin and what dose it have to do with red pill? It was mentioned around 11:00 and I don't think I understand it. Do other Cryptocurrencies or blockchain databases have a similar problem.
Cam, can you please find some time to make a video explaining the differences between Insurrectionism and syndicalism? I'm finding it hard to pick a side and its not easy to find the info online. Your opinion on both would be great, but not necessary.
Badmouse's story is really inspiring
I am a libertarian socialist, but can you please provide the source for the "one billion people worldwide being involved in cooperatives?" I want to start my own worker cooperative one day, and I would like to know where you got this information because the number seems a bit too high.
Do you have a Skype so that we could communicate?, I would like to know your ideas a bit closer from a more dialogue form type
Can I ask where you got the statistics for the medical system in Catalonia? Been looking for good information on that for an age.
+Joseph Quinn I believe there's a link in the description for some of the statistics.
Can someone help me with the name of the Anarco-feminist that cam mentioned? I can't quite make it out.
Question for OP:
Since, you believe taxation is a necessary temporary measure for transforming the present state-capitalist system would you also have a similar stance with regards to participating in the electoral process?
Also, could you link the various bloggers you recommend?
At 10:33 you suggested someone who gives good commentary of subjects happening in the UK. What was that person's name sorry? I've replayed it many times but i can't hear past your accent.
Don't mean to offend, love your stuff
+TheDeadlyDuckie Aaron Bastani's IMO Bastani on Novara Media.
Heya. I'm interested in this Bustani person. But I cannot find them anywhere. Could you send a link my way?
Please do a video on participatory economics. I have read some books on it and are curious as to your views. Erm also I was wondering if you were involved in the movement for a participatory society.
hey Cam whats your academic background, you seem very well informed
What is the youtube channel you mention @ 9:17. I can't really understand what you said there. Apparently it's a channel with lots of refutations about libertarianism.
What's your view on Bitcoin? It sounded like you were against it?
How do you feel on nuclear power in a ancom society
Are you related to Dennis the peasant?
What do you make of the surge of the SNP? Are they a sign that times are a-changing or a smoke screen to any sort of significant political change? Do you think they show that people in the north of the uk are dissatisfied with the current political climate?
Samuel Summers I think SNP voters are doing so because they are dissatisfied with austerity, but I don't think the SNP provide any kind of alternative and they have been pushing through austere policies, e.g. cutting 1200 council jobs in Edinburgh, and are trying to close Menzieshill high in Dundee
Samuel Summers People are going to try get a last grasp at Social Democracy and left-wing nationalism. It shows that they do not wish to go through the neoliberal wave but they're reactionary to the point where they want to try to maintain that system of the 60s of the Keynesian Welfare State.
Samuel Summers The SNP are populists and nationalists. Not truly left wing.
Wow, I'm surprised Bad Mouse was ever an AnCap. I subscribed to him a while ago because he seemed cool but I still have yet to watch most of his videos. Now I'll know to avoid the older ones.
How can workers own the means of production and vote on how things are produced and what things are produced and at what numbers when they don't have the skill to do it? Will worker owned firms who experience losses charge the workers for that loss? Like will they not get paid for a few months?
What is your opinion on rage against the machine?
I was just wondering, not meaning any hostility, do you have a degree in Economics?
Are you gonna continue making the Anarchist Commentaries series?
Giovanni Foulmouth yeah
+Libertarian Socialist Rants was wondering if you have any videos on European colonization in Anachua/ America
Hey Cameron, what do you think about Josip Broz Tito? He was obviously authoritarian as fuck, but i think he's still a pretty interesting leftist figure, especially considering how he's viewed today in ex-Yugoslavia.
"economics aren't my specialty" -Kenny florian
I can't find the video kapitalism 101 where is it? :(
Hey Cameron, what do you think of Sargon of Akkad here on UA-cam?
Have you ever considered automation to disprove the labor theory of value?
could you put the youtubers and bloggers you talked about in the description? Its hard to spell Noctunist Libertist
*****
Nocturnus Libertus.
Damnit... I have one question... Does beeing a gamer as a communist make me a hypocrite? You know since alot of the stuff wich makes it possible is made by corporate
Check out the Tv Tropes page on anarchism if you'd like a beginner-friendly intro to it. It also has appropriate links to further sources of info at relevant points.
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Anarchism
Comrade where did you get the plastic card? All I got was the paper?
Maybe he laminated himself. I'm sure it's a rather inexpensive endeavor.
Hi, first off thanks for some great discussion comrade and greetings from Australia.
When looking toward the one big union that is the IWW, why have you chosen to focus on industrial sections having decision making power, but not civic groups, as in anarcho syndicalism and federalism such as the IWA? In the IWW the mass of the membership are individuals, voting for committees, rather than, as Proudhon puts it, "in which the people figures as a diversified aggregate of real associations..."? There are a number of other elements I could raise as well ... it seems that the IWW promotes anarcho syndicalist imagery, and subverts many of the ideas of actual anarcho syndicalism
I went from mainstream conservatism, to chrono capitalist, and finally anarcho socialist
a few more questions: what is the incentive for people to give up the food that they grow on a farm or garden to there community? Why is a free market (more specifically a non hierarchial black/grey market where workers can trade free of the bourgeoisie and the state) a bad thing?
What's your opinion of Malcolm X and Black Nationalism.
You know who first proposed the labor theory of value: Adam Smith. Not that he was on the correct side but he did agree that the exploitation was built in.
Do you think wild cat strikes in the public sector are preferable to announced strikes? I understand the benefits of wild cat strikes, but can understand, for example commuters, being angry about them since they had no time to prepare for these strikes.
Jo101214 That's kind of the point of strikes though. If they're not causing any amount of inconvenience or damage, they won't be effective.
In Norway, striking is illegal if it hurts people or damages state interest. The state comes in and decides the dispute without unions.
It's annoying.
***** Norway isn't socialist, sadly.
I do have one question about the living wage debate. I am for it, but, I think about all the teenagers in high school who get part time jobs, be it because they simply want spending money or they need to because their family is so poor. Does a 16 year old "need" a living wage? Or does this only apply to people with full-time 40 hour a week jobs
Well, regardless of wheather or not he 'needs' a living wage, he is still a vital part of the company that he works for, and as such, should receive fair compensation for his time and efforts regardless of wheather or not somebody thinks that his personal situation warrants it or not, because this is basically assuming from the outset that his labor is technically less valuable then that of an older person working at the same place who would be esrning minimum wage, which doesn't make any sense if they are performing the same job. The only thong that happens as a result of this is that the boss or one of the bosses gets a little extra at our hypothetical 16 year old's expense, or that money is just shuffled back into the business, and doesn't make all that much of a difference when it comes to actually improving it. After all, it would only likely be a handfull of dollars, so it isn't going to make a huge difference to the boss or the operations of the company if this money os fed back into their bank accounts, however, it does make a huge difference from the perspective of the 16 year old who has earned his money, but is slighted simply because he is 16 as opposed to 18, meaning that for some reason his labor is less valuable (yeah, because that makes sense),
You seem to misunderstand the math behind what I'm saying. I'm not saying that all companies are some sort of cash cows that can afford to pay everybody $15 an hour, and I actually don't fully support the concept of a minimum wage at all. What I am saying is, that even for a company that generates low profit, it is just common sense that the owner gets a much larger share of what profit the company does turn, than the laborers who created that revenue, who get no say in how the results of their work are distributed, which I view as an injustice. I want the government to back off as much as possible, and that means the lowering or abolishment of a federal minimum wage, as you'd have virtually no need for it under a socialist economic system. The minimum wage laws were introduced as a check on capitalist business owners, so that they couldn't all just pay their workers $2 an hour and take off with the rest. Under socialist principles, the people would entirely control the management of revenue, meaning that it would be pretty much evenly dispersed when you go by democratic vote as to how to distribute these assets, so there would be no need to check a greedy owner. A minimum wage law wouldn't make sense in a society where the means of production are owned entirely by the proletariat class, as there is no overlord who has control of the money, and can make off with the larger share of it. If anything, socialism would cut down on the need for social safety net programs drastically, because more people would have more money, and be able to care for themselves. Also, their jobs couldn't be exported overseas by some CEO looking to save a few cents, as there would be no employer, or singular owner of an organized corporation that operated under a system of collectivism.
I realize that employers can be people as well, however, that does not change the fact that a vast majority of them are putting their employees at a very large disadvantage by legally being able to hoard the majority of the wealth produced by the people that work just as hard as he does. It's basically legal theft. Socialist economic principles would actually work in the best interests of the bottom 80% of the population, who at this current point in time is left to fight it out for fluctuations between 11-16% of total wealth in the United States that has gone slightly up, and taking larger steps down for decades.
www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
I find it hysterical that this guy is recording a video to talk about the advantages of anarcho communism over capitalism, but in order to record his video he used a camera made by a profit seeking company, a microphone made by a profit seeking company, video editing software made by profit seekers, posted it on youtube which is a profit seeking company, he got up this morning and maybe took a hot shower and that water was made hot by a water heater made by a profit seeking company, his clothes were made by profit seeking company, the food he eats was made by profit seeking farmers and distributors, basically, everything this guy takes for granted; food, clothes, entertainment, leisure, technology, literally everything, was invented and produced by people seeking profits by producing something that they suspect their fellow man wants or needs and yet he feels he is oppressed by capitalism. That seems strange to me.
@1:55 there's an app called Buycott to help with that problem
Tending more towards anarcho-communism these days, but I have a couple of questions not addressed in this video if you or someone else knowledgeable could answer it'd be great.
1)How would a commune make sure there are enough people in each area of expertise to keep up with demand for them? The capitalist system has an alright way of dealing with this - increasing wages when supply becomes lower than demand. Would you just let everyone have their dream job and hope it works out? Draw straws? Or are you confident you could "turn work to play" enough for all jobs to be equally desirable?
2)Would it be appropriate for communes to exile those who do not do their fair share of work or behave antisocially (after warnings and rehabilitation and all that)? If not, how else would such people be dealt with?
3)Although I agree with prison abolition to a degree, what would be done with those who murder and rape? I believe a communist society would not give anyone incentive to form organized crime groups, but there are those who are socio/psychopathic, and crimes of passion, and these people surely shouldn't be around those living in communes or even the exiles (assuming they exist) and voluntary isolationists, etc.
4)How would bigotry against minorities in a commune by majorities (ie. a black person in a majority white commune) be prevented? Do you just hope that education will do away with these attitudes?
Not really sure how this would work in every situation, but I'm helping to start an anarcha-feminist/communist commune, so I'll give you the answers to how we are going to proceed.
1) Try to recruit the people necessary to make the commune successful. Make sure you have a couple skilled farmers, builders, engineers, cooks and doctors. Those people can work on training others. Labor is first separated by skills (if you're a doctor or nuse, you're going to be a doctor). If you don't have skills, you'll be trained in jobs that need to be filled, with you getting a choice if there are multiple types of jobs that need to be done. When it comes to things like harvest time, where more workers are needed on the farm, workers in other fields will help pick the crops.
2) We will ask people to leave who are able to put in work and are unwilling to. If someone came down with a debilitating illness and was unable to do any work at all, obviously we wouldn't make them leave. As for improper behavior, the plan is to try to move people who aren't getting along with each other apart (change of job, different housing assignment, etc) and if that doesn't fix the problem, the trouble maker will be asked to leave.
3) Once found guilty by the commune at large, the person in question would be exiled. And in a case as serious as rape or murder, they'd never be allowed to return.
4) See the latter half if my answer for number 2. We make it very clear that we do not tolerate racism, misogyny homophobia or transphobia in any way. Our members are to agree to those rules when they join. If they don't want to follow those rules, they can leave. We have only three rules
1) Do as much work as you're able to until the work is done.
2) Don't be greedy by taking more than you need.
and
3) Be pleasant towards your fellow members.
All of those rules are extremely simple to follow and if you can't, maybe our commune isn't for you.
I don't really agree with point 4 as all ideas should be able to be expressed even if they go against the commune. :) even if it's some neo-conservative rhetoric.
Does this guy support a non-monetary form of AnSoc?
And, in an economy of that sort, is there a direct democracy?
+RBEmpathy By 'this guy' do you mean me? If you do, yes I do, and yes there is (though it's not just a case of 51% wins over 49%, we try to push for decisions everyone will be happy with in our decision-making processes).
Libertarian Socialist Rants
lol no, not you, I meant the other guy :P
Okay, thanks for the reply. Very quickly, what do you think of Resource Based Economies?
I did a video about the zeitgeist movement which answers this question, check it out here:
ua-cam.com/video/3SZT7MZop44/v-deo.html
Thanks man. I checked it out, and your call-in on the zeitgeist show as well. Very interesting stuff.
I put together low-quality videos for youtube about RBE's, and I was interested in your perspective, and hoped you had some sort of take on it. Very good.
I really appreciated the points you described.
Why do you disagree with Greenpiece's view on genetic engineering?
12:00 no, they are distributed according to want. In order to distribute by need, you would require a centralized power determining what people need so to make sure nobody lies, which is antithetical to anarcho-communism.
Ah, but you communists think human nature is good and pure.
If there isn’t somebody determining or checking what people actually need and not want, then are you just going to trust people?
13:00 you refer to a test on universal basic income, but that is a form of capitalist welfare, not communism. They were living in a capitalist society in which there was still an incentive to work because the UBI wasn’t immense and they could spend their money on stuff they wanted. But in your system, what people produce doesn’t matter.
13:30 firstly, this experiment is a sample size of one. Secondly, the surgeon had been trained in the practice and knew everything about the trade.
I only see communism working in the future when automation gets so good that humans are mostly irrelevant in labor.
I would like to ask, given a Anarcho-Communism society is achieved, and there are more than one group of people which is divided in terms of common interests. If there are contradictions between the interest of some groups, such as each group own different goods and there is a uneven bargaining power in a trading between groups. How would a Anarcho-Communism society solve such problem? And how can we acheive Anarcho-Communism in a international level, given that there are different cultures in different places. How to eliminate racism and xenophobic in such case？
I really like your clips and agree on nearly everything (just philosophical points, the analysis is well done and presented), in this one you should maybe have just told him that he can do _everything_ not damaging others .... that would've saved some time and sounded less limiting and could have transported the main message of anarchism - freedom and solidarity, for all willing, by all means :)
great job in total, really !
black greetings from Austria ;)
Whats the difference between libertarian socialism and Anarcho-communism?
Cameron, you should do history on the development on anarchism and its relationships with other political movements.
What about a sole proprietor / self employed who owns the means of production and earns a profit, but does not hire or fire?
It depends on the variety and implementation of socialism. Otherwise as a temporary state it is fine, but it can devolve into a state of exploitation easily.
Personally I would lean towards the idea that an enterprise of one can be structured however the person wants, but, should another person become involved in the enterprise, then a democratic means of management must be involved. In socialism you don't hire employees, you form partnerships based on equality, with the understanding that freedom means that everyone should have a say in the decisions that affect their livelihoods.
How would a person like myself who has really difficult time socially, difficulty interacting with others like social activity makes me miserable and feel suicidal,serious depression anxiety issues, and can't work or be employed...how would people like me function in a anarcho-communist setting? Would there be social space for people to simply be, and still be treated fairly and included? It seems like everything surrounds working in a society like this, like the work place and what about people who have mental, psychological,emotional difficulties, challenges or peculiarities and are loners or are minimally social or unsuccessful?
any thoughts on Bernie Sanders in America..I really hope wins , I know he is not anarcho-communist but he is far more progressive than most politicians here in U.S.
One more question any thoughts on Scandenavian countries and their methods of socialism and also the their prison system and ways of dealing with crime.
I personally really like and respect their model and appreciate their orientation towards a more elevated humanity...would this type of mentality be possible in anarcho communism? or would it be more of a society where harsher punishments are handed out.
you keep saying in all your videos that "workers should control and keep ownership of their own work" and keep the benefits from it. What work are you talking about exactly? You keep saying that but you never specify. Not everyone is a 1800's factory worker. How are people who work in IT, STEM, Medical fields including research and development in those fields etc; supposed to keep what they make and own the means? it makes no sense. You keep saying capitalism exploits the worker but not everyone is stuck in a cubicle or works in a factory
Exploitation means taking the value of someones labour and not giving them enough back.
Billions of people live in poverty and wage slavery and a group of middle class peoole who are happy DOES NOT justify that. eg. A couple of candies in a pile of shit doesn't mean you eat the pile.
I am an anarcho-communist, however I cannot disregard some of the flaws that I see with this position. I would love for someone to be able to explain to me how some of these problems could be solved. Say for example there are two communes living side by side. Internally these two communes operate and allocate their resources flawlessly, however these two communes are not necessarily on good terms with one another. Commune A has access to a resource that Commune B needs in order to survive, but Commune A is reluctant to share this resource with Commune B. How do you solve this dilemma?
Libertarian Socialist Rants, thank you so much for all the useful information! One of the questions BMP asked about specialization has bugged me for a while but wow you really know your information. Thanks and keep up your fantastic work, you're doing everyone a service with each video you make! :)
Libertarian Socialist Rants I know you've had about 410 suggestions for videos to make, but one thing that was a real sticking point for me becoming an anarchist was criminal justice. I've read more about it, but in your videos, you don't tend to describe a potential anarchistic system to deal with anti-social behavior more specifically than "collective action." That's a big problem a lot of liberals have with anarchism.
Will I be able to build a decent gaming PC and buy games from steam in an anarchist society?
Also I think the long-entrenched culture of materialist self-maximisation, inherent or not, is more immovable than we are giving credence to
Thank you Badmouse for seeing our point. We welcome you!
This video gave a crestfallen Ancomm some hope, thank you, Cameron.
Do you really believe that without the financial incentive there would be just as many people willing to work as surgeons and or other stressful occupations. If high salaries are not an incentive could you explain to me why employers offer them?
Higher salaries ARE an incentive, just not in a communist society. We live under capitalism, so making more money is always a goal, if you are to be sure that you can eat and have a place to live. Once capitalism is gone, the other incentives (helping the community, doing something with your life, having people not die of typhus in the streets) will take the place of the monetary incentive.
Do you really think helping the community will be as good an incentive as high salaries. Sounds a little bit idealistic mate.
Due that competition is "a intrincical human trait" How AnSoc reguard innovation. What is the insurance against mediocrity? Sorry for any mistake english is not my first language.
You disagree with Greenpeace's stance on nuclear energy? Does that mean you advocate nuclear energy, and in which case, why?
The thing about Nuclear Power that many people don't seem to consider and indeed I had not considered until I was reading an Anarchist newsletter (I can't recall if it was Freedom or Resistance!) is that nuclear power is heavily policed by the state, in that nuclear materials are obviously dangerous and require lots of security. So power stations usually have quite a lot of armed guards or soldiers protecting them and putting increased scrutiny on the surrounding community.
So it’s weird for me because I was exposed to Anarchism mostly BY badmouseproductions. I went through a similar set of economic shifts as he did and I really identified with the same series of shifts that he undertook. This video has helped me because I have been asking the same sorts of questions lately. So thank you very much!!
how exactly are you an anarcho communist if you support the monetary system. I thought the whole point of being an anarchist was to get rid of capitalism, not support it.
People love bragging rights, like people who do a lot of work free on youtube to get followers. People also love learning new things, helping people they care about, and doing things that they know are difficult to achieve. That's why we went to the moon.
Although some jobs may need to change as far as how they are done. Some jobs are designed badly and if they were controlled by the people who did them more would be less stressful.
Basically an ancap here.
The way I look at it, capitalism as conceived by ancaps (codified voluntary association) is a social parameter being supported in addition to the political persuasion of anarchy. We don't want rulers, but we are perfectly fine with you keeping what you can earn without harming anyone (because all harm is involuntary as any detriment which is conscented to is voluntarily accepted and therefore cannot be considered harm) and then using that which you've earned as you see fit.
I see ancom as politically anarchist and authoritarian on social issues such as feminism. You're not allowed to freely associate. You're required to conform to the social narative of community and equality. There's no room for supporting merit with advancement in ancom. You'll always be equal no matter how hard you work or how well you perform. The only way to lift yourself is to lift absolutely everyone, which incidentally makes you a leader if you're able to do that on your own even while maintaining equal power to all around you.
I'd love to have a respectful and nonideological driven conversation with any ancom and I think we have a lot more in common than you'd expect.
Your eyes are beautiful.
yeah, cam really does have beautiful eyes!
Would love to see you debate Stefan Molyneux. I've just exposed myself to this viewpoint and will continue to research.
Stefan would never debate a well informed individual.
+Seth J. (oTOYOTo) Stefan takes any callers.
+Noah Schuler That's surprising. Either way, he seems to be ironically adverse to honest debates, considering that he has a bunch of "honest conversation" videos. He is intentionally obtuse and makes no attempt to hide it, and is constantly nit picking at every little mistake that the person he's talking to makes.
+Seth J. (oTOYOTo) Yup he is prick at times. He has done a few videos in the past on anarcho communism. The reason why I think communism or socialism fails is because it cannot determine the value of items along with that it provides no incentive for a better product.
+Noah Schuler Capitalism doesn't determine the value of items, people do. Just because money doesn't exist under communism it doesn't mean people are totally blind to the value of an item. And the incentive in capitalism is "cheapest quality product, charging the highest possible price" sure occasionally the opposite prevails but usually it doesn't.
I think the reason capitalism fails is because of the inevitability of the vast majority of wealth being concentrated among a very small group of people, meaning the rest of the population is essentially enslaved by the few.
Huh! I didn't realize the Wobblies were still around. Good for them! They were probably one of the most memorable labor unions I learned of in high school (mostly the nickname).
How can I tell people about anarchist communism without sounding like Rick from the young ones?
Just a thought. There is a group of people that can and does dedicate a lot of time and resources to "ethical shopping" - figuring out if there are any Cuban components in the product. :) Might be a reference for how hard it is to do such a thing.
Republican>Right Libertarian >Anarcho Capitalist> Market Anarchist now. Cameron thank you for your videos! Keep waking people up!
I used to be a capitalist too. I am so glad I changed.
Please don't stop doing this. Thank you.
how would law enforcement in an anarchist society work (aside from militias)?
Law firms could form like grocery stores. Best store survives. Best law firm survives. Best law firm has best... You know... Anarcho capitalist solutions. I don't know left anarchism solution.
+Noah Schuler
Part of the radicalism of anarchism lies in a new understanding of crime. The majority of crime is the product of social problems like drug-addiction, isolation and lack of adequate access to resources. The other elements of crime tend to stem from mental health problems -psychopathy etc - and must be dealt with from within that paradigm: unlike today where Prisons often double as Asylums.
In an anarchist world such problems should be dealt with on a case by case basis. The question of Why becomes more important than What, Who and How. Ultimately the notion of law enforcement as we currently know it would have to be transcended in an anarchist society.
As for market focused non-state based solutions to "disobedience". We have a couple of examples in realm of the black market; almost all of them involve extreme levels of violence.
Franticalmagic I agree, as long as as someone doesn't initiate the use of force it isn't a crime.
Initiation of the use of force is a poor moral rule; it's too vague to tell us what it means on its own. NAP and the like depend on definitions of property and self-hood to be made meaningful.
In short, people differ on topics like property and self-hood so in turn they differ over what counts as initiation of the use of force. The split between anarchists proper and voluntaryists etc is not whether they think violence can be initiated against others but rather precisely what counts as such an initiation.
+Noah Schuler
They asked for the anarchist solution, not the capitalist one.
0:13 That's what I call good news!
Hey I would really like to know, does anarchy-communist = socialist ???
+Nicki06 hey Anarcho-Communism is a form of Socialism.
+littlebigphil oh okay, I was a little confused of how someone could be a a socialist and anarchist at the same time
13:40 just think of all those people who would go to medical school if they did not have to go into debt for it. People act as though being a doctor or neurosurgeon is this somehow awful, unfulfilling work. It's not.
And also, the "to each according to his need" part often gets overlooked or misunderstood. As some one who has worked in social work and mental health, I strongly advocate for self care. This includes "spoiling" oneself. Yes, being a physician is stressful work. And sometimes one's need is to check out, take a little break while being supported in mental and emotional recovering, and maybe even treating oneself to "luxury" goods or services once in a while. Doing those things is not anti-communist, especially when it incorporates the knowledge social workers and therapists have developed over how complex human needs actually are.
I went from a right-libertarian (US version) to a social democrat then democratic socialists and I am now a libertarian socialist. I don't think libertarian socialism will truly happen in the modern world though on a meaningful scale (shoot me, I'm a pessimist.) If libertarian socialism was more well known I think more people would be libertarian socialists or at least democratic socialist. I see libertarian socialism intentional communities becoming more common in the upcoming years. I would LOVE to live in a libertarian socialist/anarcho-collectivist community! (preferably with environmentalism in mind)
From listening to your videos over the last few years I have changed from centre right to far left. I have gain a huge interest in politics and socialism. I really appreciate and look forward to your videos. However I am not totally convinced on the complete abolition of the state ( I believe it has a role to play) nor am I fond of the people on the face of the feminist movement. I was wondering if you recommend any reading material on these matters if you have not done so already?
jplb96 Chomsky's 'On Anarchism' is a nice introduction
Thanks,I was thinking of Chomsky.
jplb96 Start by Bakunin and see the "Organizational platform of the libertarian communists" and the writings of Makhno and the other comrades of the Dielo Trouda. Those are the best literature in the anarchist doctrine.
Also, read Marx, a lot of it. Anarchism is not the antithesis of marxism and therefore there is no reason to reject everything he says (and he says quite a lot of useful things).I would recommend that you avoid reading Chomsky on the subject of anarchism, since he is quite idealist in his analysis.