The Logistical Problems with Anarchosocialism

Nov 08, 2011 07:27

In Ursula K. Le Guin's famous novel The Dispossessed (1974), we see (perhaps intentionally, perhaps unintentionally) one flaw with anarchosocialism -- it handles logistical issues poorly, due to its refusal to engage in trading in the market to establish the relative values of resources. (Here's my old and perhaps unreasonably-hostile review of ( Read more... )

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The problem is that it's hard to do logistical transport... jorrocks_j November 9 2011, 02:26:12 UTC
...when you've only got two empty halves of coconuts and you're bangin' em together.

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Re: The problem is that it's hard to do logistical transport... cutelildrow November 9 2011, 14:13:20 UTC
^_^ The mental image your comment evokes makes me giggle.

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