I made a post on hierarchy a month ago but I have some more specific questions now.

I’ve been hit with the claim that mass production industries that are needed today would not be possible without a hierarchy. That due to regional limitations and the logistics of smartphone manufacturing, technology cannot be produced on the needed scale without a hierarchy of managers.

This is quoted in PCB fabrication, as well as other areas such as medicine and other mass produced goods.

It is also said that managers are needed for efficiency, though I don’t understand that.

Because the anarchist movement, abolishing hierarchy, “runs counter” to the “global direction of humanity and progress”, it is acclaimed to being “doomed to failure” and “idealist”.

What would be the anarchist response to this? Would appreciate detailed responses and/or resources.

I want to improve my anarchist understanding

  • Yliaster@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    Ah I figured that community wasn’t as active as flippanarchy, but alright.

    That appears to be a whole book, perhaps I can give it a read sometime

    • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      That appears to be a whole book, perhaps I can give it a read sometime

      I tried to link the relevant paragraph, maybe your brwose doesnt take you there correctly. Its under the section “5. what taskmasters do” of the second chapter.