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The problem of scale in Anarchism

This paper should be regarded as a continuation of the discussion started in [1] on the problem of scale in Anarchism and the Cybernetic Communism proposal, and as part of a longer forthcoming series of contributions aimed at developing and illustrating different aspects, some more abstract and theoretical and others more concrete, of the Cybernetic Communism idea.

From small to large scale anarchism

As already discussed in [1], small scale anarchism is a well established system consisting of communes, self-managed workers cooperatives, mutual aid networks, local food production and distribution, shared maker and hacker spaces, organized according to what in the time of the Span- ish Civil War was referred to as libertarian collectivism and libertarian syndicalist socialism.

Contra Tiqqun

In 2001 the French anarchist collective Tiqqun published a programmatic text called “The Cybernetic Hypothesis”, later published in English translation by Semiotext(e), and just republished in the same series in 2020. In essence, the cybernetic hypothesis is summarized by the statement that “what today is called neoliberalism is best understood as cybernetic capitalism”.

Networks and complex systems

A complex adaptive system (CAS) is “a system in which large networks of com- ponents with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective behavior, sophisticated information processing, and adaptation via learning or evolution” [51]. CASes are most concretely realized as biological and ecological systems, but their study is also applied towards social systems. In this paper, we are motivated by the discovery of topological phases in abstract configuration spaces in biological and ecological systems as in [39, 70], interpreting them not just as re- sults not specific to biological or ecological contexts, but speculating more wildly that these results about CASes, and thus containing insights also applicable towards the understanding of society.

Mutualistic networks in biological systems

As a general caveat, invok- ing nature as a justification for the functioning and aspirations of human society is fraught with dangerous pitfalls, from the social Darwinist appropriations and mis- interpretations of the theory of evolution and natural selection, aimed at justifying and promoting cut-throat capitalist competition as an imitation of a Tennysonian “Nature red in tooth and claw”, to the attempts of the promoters of the capitalist market system to pass off the functioning of markets as some kind of natural law, rather than as a human construct stemming from specific ideological positions.

Scale phenomena in complex network

The investigation of mutualistic networks in natural ecosystems also reveals interesting properties from the point of view of scale.HelloHello