I’m just wondering again on this. Sorry
I’ve been struggling with something and wanted to get perspectives from people who take anarchism seriously.
A lot of the criticisms around large-scale coordination, crisis response, and things like the economic calculation problem feel overwhelming. It makes anarchism seem very difficult to defend as a full system, even if I agree with its values.
At the same time, alternatives like capitalism seem more “practically viable,” even if they have major flaws.
How do you reconcile that? Do you see anarchism as something that can actually function at scale, or more as a framework for critique and smaller-scale organization?
I’m trying to understand how people who believe in this actually deal with these criticisms.
I know people have tried to help me and tried their best and I feel embarrassed to still not fully commit yet despite people trying like is there any way I can get out of the spiral into capitalist realism and ‘there is no alternative
I just feel overwhelmed hearing all the amounts of criticism