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Originally Posted by homelitexl
(Post 576731)
it would have if hitler hadnt goten syfulus and went crazy
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National Socialism (or in fact any socialist society that is not democratic, like the Nazi party) has one main drawback. Ok, that's bullshit, it has countless drawbacks. One in particular is this. If everyone is relying on the government for distribution of resources and community planning, then the government would be a big and integral part of the daily life. If the government is not democratic and representative of the people's desire, the feeling of, "Bigger Brother" will grow and grow quickly.
That's the main problem with government as a whole though, in terms of public opinion. There is a large tendency for the government-governed relationship to become a type of Them vs. Us scenario. If there is any type of governing body, a council, a committee, a bureaucracy, etc, then there needs to be a feeling that the body is a direct part of the community and a direct part of the populace. The people would need to feel this body is a part of themselves, not an external force like a parent. This is essentially impossible on very large scales. Even the most democratically ideal Federation would eventually grow into a Them vs. Us relationship.
As such, the only way to even have a council or committee, or body of any kind, is on the immediate local community level, and it would have to be both voluntary and democratic, as well as fluid and organic. An example would be in a town of 1,000 that covered forty-nine square miles, including agricultural land, the ideal situation for deciding things would be if a member of every household congregated and set policy, discussing things until a solution could be found that was agreeable to all. This is obviously highly idealistic, and of course there will always be someone unhappy, but this would be a drastically lower rate of dissatisfaction than what a government the size of the United States has. It is entirely imaginable, going back to my theoretical town, that all 1,000 members could congregate and discuss things, with them breaking into smaller groups then gathering to compare ideas.
The reason I typed all of this out is, other than to prove that I can type more than six sentences without swearing, that I wanted to give the people who doubt the practicality of anarchist communism on the day to day basis. I wanted to give a good, albeit crude, example of what such a community would be like. To my admittedly limited understanding of Anarchist Syndicalism, the system of factories and labor unions would make it easier to have larger societies, but more power would have to be given to these labor unions, which is one of my reservations about Syndicalism. I will say now, as a disclaimer, I know very little of Anarchist Syndicalism, so if I have said anything in error, don't hesitate to correct me.