Anarchism is only plausible if a community withdraws from the world economy

Evidence

To restore to anarchism a measure of sociological plausibility, it would be necessary to extricate an anarchic community from the modern world economy and to reconcile its members to decidedly more modest standards of living than those which prevail in, for example, Sweden or Spain or the Soviet Union. It would also be necessary to reconcile the existing holders of territorial sovereignty (and perhaps their neighbours) to this withdrawal. The problems of anarchism so conceived are certainly problems of its potential stability within a world of comparative economic dynamism. But they are also, and at least as acutely, problems of its mere accessibility within that world. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1095

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s Hobbesian-predation account: in the absence of enforced constraints, trust scales degrade — matching why sightedness (the enforcing agent) is needed in Saramago’s plague society. — connects to: A genuine world economy would dissolve the nation state — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 241; The market is anarchic and unplanned economy-wide — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 109; Anarchism resurges whenever great-power war becomes unthinkable — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 131