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05-16-2019, 07:47 AM
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Feudalism is a socioeconomic mode of production specific to a time and place in history; an evolution out of the collapse of the Roman Empire. To suggest it would re-emerge out of anarchy is to ignore the historical materialism of how feudalism came to be, not to mention that left-anarchism is founded upon the abolition of value form and the commodity.
Human history shows that whenever possible, a small group of people will do anything they can to gain as much power as they can over as many other people. It's obviously true in the capitalist system that we currently have. If you abolish value and commodity and governmental rules and all that shit, things may be pleasant for a generation or so, but slowly some folk will accumulate power. Because there is only local community organisation, old-school feudalism will inevitably return.
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