----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck0" <chuck at tao.ca> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: Re: "post-leftism"
> Ian Murray wrote:
>
> > How would you build computers and garbage trucks and medical equipment without
institutions?
>
> We wouldn't be able to build new computers in a post-revolutionary
> anarchist society. Computer production requires a highly capitalized,
> global, command and control capitalist system.
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How would anarchism forbid some group from organizing production of computers in a non-capitalist mode of production? What other technologies would no longer be built -forbidden to be built?- in the anarchical post society world you intimate?
>
> As for garbage, I would imagine that each community would have different
> solutions. If we can get rid of this consumer society, we'd have less crap
> to fill dumps and landfills with. We could also compost more crap,
> literally.
>
> ;-)
>
> << Chuck0 >>
>
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What would you do about the production and distribution of medicines when compost heaps start to do strange things to watersheds and aquifers? What would anarchists do about a cholera outbreak for example?
Ian