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
If the workers are motivated, they can self-organize. However, a hierachy in a production facility or across multiple is not incompatible with anarchy on a national scale. There can be different kind of jobs. There can be someone who just organizes logistics, replacing the manager.
All of this has nothing to do with political systems like anarchism or oligarchy tho. People like to mix them up, but these are economic systems; in this case even microeconomic.
I thought anarchism was against hierarchy? Like isn’t that the point of anarchism?
How does a person who organizes logistics differ from a manager?
Please elaborate.