<story><title>Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/organise-camus-albert-and-the-anarchists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>The Rebel is a very interesting piece of work - you can randomly flip it open to any page and find tidbits like this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;When we are assured that tomorrow, in the natural order of events, will be better than today, we can enjoy ourselves in peace. Progress, paradoxically, can be used to justify conservatism. A draft drawn on confidence in the future, it allows the master to have a clear conscience. The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;However, even after reading the book the notion of anarchism remains unclear.  I couldn&amp;#x27;t tell you how an anarchist would go about setting up a steel factory (or any other activity requiring highly coordinated human effort) in line with anarchist principles, for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keybored</author><text>&amp;gt; However, even after reading the book the notion of anarchism remains unclear. I couldn&amp;#x27;t tell you how an anarchist would go about setting up a steel factory (or any other activity requiring highly coordinated human effort) in line with anarchist principles, for example.&lt;p&gt;You’ve lost the ability to imagine freedom.</text></comment>
<story><title>Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/organise-camus-albert-and-the-anarchists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>The Rebel is a very interesting piece of work - you can randomly flip it open to any page and find tidbits like this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;When we are assured that tomorrow, in the natural order of events, will be better than today, we can enjoy ourselves in peace. Progress, paradoxically, can be used to justify conservatism. A draft drawn on confidence in the future, it allows the master to have a clear conscience. The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;However, even after reading the book the notion of anarchism remains unclear.  I couldn&amp;#x27;t tell you how an anarchist would go about setting up a steel factory (or any other activity requiring highly coordinated human effort) in line with anarchist principles, for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TotalCrackpot</author><text>You can choose delegates with some sphere of autonomy in a horizontal way, but in anarchist association you can instantly recall them in a horizontal way too. This helps mitigate creating hierarchy while giving someone autonomy and making it possible to divide labor.</text></comment>