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Would horizontal structures of power eventually become a state?
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I would say I agree with pretty much all that anarchists believe, but I have one problem: the state. To me, as a former liberal, the state is an instrument of efficiency if designed properly. For a moneyless society to persist, control of the resources is necessary to keep the relative abundance of goods, and a central authority would execute that better than decentralized power structures. I do not wish to abolish the state.

Furthermore, if you formed delegate-led, horizontal worker's councils and communes, over vertical, hierarchical institutions, wouldn't those worker's councils just become the new state. Wouldn't you just be rapidly reforming the state and its role, rather than abolishing it. (You probably heard this a million times before.)

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