without similarly efficient operative body capable of organizing proper defense
I'm no anarchist, but I don't think you're gonna find a lot of serious anarchists saying that outside of strawmen.
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Op isn't saying that anarchist organizing principles are deliberately inefficient at scale
That's a more charitable interpretation that I'm inclined to give a shitpost, but then again, it's a shitpost, I probably shouldn't get my panties in a bunch
Iirc one of historical attempts often cited by anarchists were Cantonal Uprising in Spain and they did almost exactly that.
Excuse me, you could also look at a quasi-state with work camps or warlord army territorry, and you could still say those were not authoritarian and it will be so because you nonauthoritarianly said so.
this is why workers’ council republics are better than total anarchy. There needs to be a state apparatus or itll collapse due to egoism.