#david deleon

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If war came … how would [an anarchist] society organize to defend itself? Let us assume that the anarchist federation of North America is invaded by troops of the Chinese, Swedish, Saudi Arabian or Brazilian government. What would happen? There would be no state apparatus to seize; instead, the invaders would have to conquer a network of small communities, one by one. There would be no single army to defeat, but an entire, armed population. The people would challenge the invasion with resistance—strikes, psychological warfare, and non-cooperation as well as with guerrilla tactics and larger armed actions. Under these circumstances, it is unlikely that the invaders would conquer the federation.

In an anarchist community, people wouldn’t categorize work as ‘dirty’ or clean,’ as ‘white-collar’ or ‘blue-collar.’ That way of thinking can exist only in a class-stratified society—one that teaches its members that maintenance tasks are undignified, demeaning, and to be avoided if possible. For anarchists, all socially useful work has dignity, and everyone would cooperate to sustain the community at a mutually agreed-upon level of health, comfort and beauty. Those who refuse to collect the garbage, clean streets and buildings, trim the grass, provide a clean water supply and so on would be acting in a most irresponsible fashion. If they continued to refuse, they would be asked to leave.… One of the things that makes ‘dirty’ work so onerous is that only some people do it, and they work at it full-time. Very few maintenance tasks would seem totally awful if they were rotated, and each person knew s/he would be doing it for a short period of time. Short work periods on the garbage truck, or cleaning public bathrooms, or fertilizing fields would seem—well, not fun of course (anarchists aren’t stupid) but would be tolerable if each person knew they would end soon.

Here's the complete Special Committee Minority Report that opposes a county manager government in Maui County