#collective force

Wowie. No, I’m not autistic, but, like, don’t fucking use it as an insult. Neurodivergence isn’t an insult to throw around. (I mean, I am neurodivergent with a developmental condition, but not all such conditions are autism.)

I’m also not even right wing. I’m an anarchist communist. (To be fair, I identify with post-leftism, so I’m not exactly a leftist either.) And, yes, all those things are paid for by taxes. And taxes are exploitation just as much as profit.

See, what’s going on when we pay taxes is that the state is taking some of our collective force (that is the stuff produced when we work together) and deciding for us how that is to be distributed. It’s no different than when the capitalist class takes the collective force of the working class.

However, in conditions of anarchy, that collective force would be retained by the unity-collectives (that is groupings of individuals who act in concert sufficiently to create collective force) which created them, and those unity collectives would be able to distribute them to the sorts of things taxes pay for today more directly.

Of course, this cuts out a lot. Legislatures are used to plan for others the distribution of collective force, so they become unnecessary, and police are used to maintain the power structures of the status quo, so they become unnecessary as well.