[Borodog]

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i should probably get used to the idea that in this forum anarchism is assumed to mean acism.

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anarcho-socialism is an oxymoron. Socialism implies a one size fits all (statist) solution that must be coercisevly imposed.

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You should let this go, because this simply is not correct. This is only correct for a large or technically advanced society. Socialism, including anarcho-socialism, works very well for small tribal groups at an extremely low level of technology. This is true for a few reasons:

1) Peer monitoring can overcome the incentive problem in very small groups,
2) The small size of the group and the primitive level of technology does not lead to an unmanageable number of potential alternative uses for scarce collectively owned resources, and
3) The small size of the group insures a homogeneity of culture that tends to breed agreement about the uses of scarce collectively owned resources.

Tribal socialism really is socialism, and stateless tribal socialism really is anarcho-socialism. These are in fact the *only* circumstances underwhich true socialism, collective ownership of the factors of production, anarcho or otherwise, is sustainable.