For what it’s worth, I’ve been having a private anarchist bent for a little while, now. Plenty of people seem to recognize that socialism seems nice other than the power structures it creates, and anarchism is the natural next step along that line of thinking. But… healthcare. And food. Food and health care. For this to ever work on a major scale we all need to re-learn how our ancestors lived self-sufficiently, which few people (even among anarchists) seem willing to do, and medically advanced healthcare, I’m not sure anyone is willing to give that up. I would have straight-up died at birth if Boston Medical Center didn’t exist. Even if I think charitably of the level of healthcare an anarchist society could provide, I can’t imagine it involving me being alive. There’s a huge level of self-sacrifice there.

For that matter, good luck solving our destruction of this planet. Most major climate-destroying activity is occurring because groups that aren’t as well-off as the preeminent first-world countries are (rightfully, I’d say) looking to fast-track their way to higher standards of living the same way that western Europe and the United States did. On one hand, sure, in an egalitarian society it’d be “easier” to teach them the right way of moving forward. But who’s gonna bother doing that? I just can’t imagine enough people ever really grasping the idea of collective action.

…And of course there’s the Anarchist Library’s apparent love of Ted Kaczynski’s jackass patriarchal, homophobic, ableist, generally bigoted rants against the “over-socialized left”.