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      How authority is defined and how Engels actually logically provides an answer to the question whether organization without authority is possible

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        A short ‘logical’ essay can give any answer in an abstract sense, but that doesn’t discount empirical examples.

        Always seemed to me like Engels begs the question, takes “anarchy = chaos” as a starting assumption.

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            It’s trivially easy to think of examples of “organisation without authority” in nature, in history, in software.

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              Provide a trivially easy example that you can think of (in the concrete sense) and let’s examine it together

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                  I provided you not only one, but two (cotton spinning wheel and railway example), assuming you’re familiar with Engels text.

                  I see you’re either scared to be challenged ideologically or it’s not as trivially easy as you make it seem to be.

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                    No, those aren’t examples of “organisation without authority”; they’re the opposite.

                    I only see two possibilities –

                    • You need to spoonfeed you examples of “organisation without authority” because you have excessive respect for my opinion, lack of independent thought
                    • You’re playing the role of ‘hostile skeptic on the internet’