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In relatively small communities, but as an economic way of life rather than a set political manifesto. Maybe it's just my bias, but when it works, communism and anarchism go hand in hand, communism being one of the easiest ways but not the only one, for an anarchist community to work.
The most perfect egalitarian community, the Diggers in England, had no perpetual authorities and lived a life of equal distribution of resources. Unfortunately these communities were only of a couple hundred people.
But then we can also point out to the beginnings of the Russian revolution, before the Bolsheviks decided to take control of the state-vacuum, rationalizing that "a period of control is temporarily necessary" against obvious evidence of the contrary. In the early aftermath of the Russian revolution, there were autonomous communities based on libertarian communism. Case in point, the Makhnovtchina, a newly formed region in the Ukraine consisting of seven million people.
There's countries subjected to the inequalities of capitalism with less peopel than that. The Makhnovtchina is the perfect example that libertarian communism works.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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