>>510712408"true" communism isn't a viable alternative, not on any principled grounds but just because I don't think it's likely. I think most anarchist thinkers have circled around the idea of what a free society would actually look like, which is something like
>individuals engaged in self-directed production, either for their own consumption or for small scale trade>mutual, small-to-medium sized associations of people who cooperate via consensus or other broadly democratic methods to achieve common goals and also operate within that same space>a dense interconnected network of association between individuals and these small groups based on the principle of secession that is used to temporarily achieve larger-form goals, typically with a lot of inconvenient bickering and animosity that prevents the organizations from becoming stable long-term bureaucracies"communism" will probably exist in some sense as a fringe end of the spectrum, as would pure "individualism", but I think most people would find different aspects of their lives better served by some broad range of applications of those principles. I think most of us want communism to provide us with health insurance but want autonomy over our own homes. I think within the economic framework, democratic cooperatives would be preferable, but once they get big enough to become unwieldy, market forces should take over to act as a consensus-finding mechanism (because you can't get 20,000 people in a room together and find consensus)
I think in large part the state will be replaced with multiple overlapping "competing"/co-existing organizations that do basically what the state does, and people will move among them based on personal circumstance. The notional idea of a government will not really go away, it will just stop being a geographic monopoly and start being mutual services.