if they manage to do it between a rock and a hard place, the system itself is plenty stable enough to work under better conditions
That’s like saying that if fusion manages to happen in the middle of the sun, surely it can happen in my living room.
if you somehow teleported it over it wouldn’t regress politically – what would be the reason for people to allow that?
Why wouldn’t they? If my family is about to starve and most import and export is blocked, sure I will work on a farm to sustain our community, because ultimately that also feeds my family and I don’t have the option to seek better job somewhere in EU.
If there is no ISIS on the border trying to murder me, why should I accept that the farm that belonged to my family for generations was collectivized and I’m working on it for a tiny share rather than benefiting from all it can produce?
That’s like saying that if fusion manages to happen in the middle of the sun, surely it can happen in my living room.
It can. You’ll need a pressure vessel to get to the necessary combination of temperature and pressure, sure, but it’s perfectly possible.
The question is not whether an Anarchist revolution could start here, which is an open question Anarchists in liberal democracies are banging their head against, but whether it could sustain itself if it is, as it is now, suddenly teleported to let’s say the middle of the North Sea. Ignoring impacts of sudden climate change on crops and whatnot because that’d be silly. It’s a proper magical teleportation.
If my family is about to starve and most import and export is blocked, sure I will work on a farm to sustain our community, because ultimately that also feeds my family and I don’t have the option to seek better job somewhere in EU.
Working abroad, maybe studying, and then coming back to develop your country supports your family even more.
If there is no ISIS on the border trying to murder me, why should I accept that the farm that belonged to my family for generations was collectivized and I’m working on it for a tiny share rather than benefiting from all it can produce?
There was no force-collectivisation. In fact there’s no collectives, there’s cooperatives. There’s also plenty of agricultural cooperatives in the EU, some of them ludicrously large, though granted Arla is capitalist AF. Models that right-out mirror what you have in Rojava also exist. If your farm was in a EU country you’d be paying taxes on income, in Rojava you’re sending out your surplus harvest for distribution and are getting all kinds of services from the wider community. And that decommodified community solidarity is a benefit in itself.
Or do you think farmers will look at the EU, how farmers are protesting largely because they’re getting squeezed by middle-men (traders, supermarkets) and think “yeah we want that, that’s better”?
sending out your surplus harvest for distribution
I fail to understand what surplus harvest is in this context. I have a friend farmer and he never mentioned that, because you know they generally sell stuff. The closest thing he mentioned was hay of which he might have more than he’ll need to feed the animals over winter, but even that is same product as any other and is sold to other farms. It’s not surplus, it’s par of the production.
all kinds of services from the wider community
What kind of services are we talking about? Farmers (and other citizens in EU) also get all kind of services. Also once they sell their produce, they can get all kind of services even beyond what local community provides. I don’t see any benefit outside of situation where the export/import is impractical. Hence my metaphor with fission. (even if not technically 100% accurate as metaphors are)
I fail to understand what surplus harvest is in this context.
What you don’t need for yourself, or for whole communities, what the communities don’t need. If you’re currently a subsistence farmer ways will be found to make you more productive than that, e.g. by making sure that each village has a tractor at least.
I don’t see any benefit outside of situation where the export/import is impractical.
Why are you exporting food to some place while the local restaurant is importing it? Even if it’s practical because you have roads and open borders and whatnot doesn’t mean that it’s sensible.
And, of course, there’s plenty of restaurants around in the EU which source very locally. Make that the norm, instead of the exception.
Rojava, also the Zapatista, still do plenty of commodified trade – goods against money. The base requirements that people have, though, food, shelter, education, healthcare, are decommodified. Part of the food you produce in excess goes into doctor’s stomachs, the rest onto the market so that things like medical supplies can be bought, stuff Rojava doesn’t produce itself.
What gets distributed, what gets sold and what gets bought is all council decisions.
