Humankind has had many small structures before, they did not prove resilient to that problem. If anything, once someone you don’t want in charge takes over the first couple of groups, it’s incredibly easy for them to simply roll up the rest
Also note that all of the examples of states they would denounce could easily be described as a series of smaller networks.
I genuinely fail to see a quantifiable, material distinction between something like Revolutionary Catalonia (ostensibly made up of a series of smaller networks) and an example like Yugoslavia (verifiably made up of a series of smaller networks.) Although I know the path this discussion takes - we’re gonna defend one and denounce the other by playing goldilocks with an unquantifiable “size” of the networks and it’ll be that Tito had too much power and did bad things (unlike an anarchist leader such as Nestor Makhno who also had too much power and did some very, very bad things as documented in the historical record, but that’s different for unexplained reasons) and then we’re going to play at definitions and rely on a deep and abiding, yet extremely selective, skepticism.
Humankind has had many small structures before, they did not prove resilient to that problem. If anything, once someone you don’t want in charge takes over the first couple of groups, it’s incredibly easy for them to simply roll up the rest
Also note that all of the examples of states they would denounce could easily be described as a series of smaller networks.
I genuinely fail to see a quantifiable, material distinction between something like Revolutionary Catalonia (ostensibly made up of a series of smaller networks) and an example like Yugoslavia (verifiably made up of a series of smaller networks.) Although I know the path this discussion takes - we’re gonna defend one and denounce the other by playing goldilocks with an unquantifiable “size” of the networks and it’ll be that Tito had too much power and did bad things (unlike an anarchist leader such as Nestor Makhno who also had too much power and did some very, very bad things as documented in the historical record, but that’s different for unexplained reasons) and then we’re going to play at definitions and rely on a deep and abiding, yet extremely selective, skepticism.