In your ideal society, all material things would be freely available, and hell the very concept of money would be totally obliterated, but could a small business exist?

For example:

In Star Trek Deep Space 9, while not an anarchist society, has the same factors of the extinction of the concept of currency and everything material always available at all times, but the Sisko family(whom the series mainly follows) has a family-owned Cajun restaurant, fully staffed and everything made by hand, saying that replicator-made meals can't compare to a meal made with a human touch.

Could a business like that exist in anarchy, or would it remind you so much of capitalism that you'd demand the place be burnt to the ground and the people who own it executed for the unforgivable crime of commerce?

for example, if the 200 or so nation states became 200,000 independent cultures, would that be a potential means to arrive at a condition of "no nation states"?

should anarchists pragmatically support balkanization?

i mean this in the sense of anarchy with no prescriptions. anarchy that is only against, never for.

from my perspective, anarchy as pure negation is actually more open to possibility than prescriptions on how anarchy ought to look. the possibilities without hierarchy are infinite, and saying "this is what anarchy should look like" is always going to be more restrictive than anarchy as pure negation.

I understand that under the framework of anarchism, much of the ills of society are attributed to various centralized and hierarchical system, which anarchism would seek to abolish.

How would anarchists responds to the challenge of cultish abuse? Specifically, cultish abuse tends to happen in small, close knit communities where the power dynamics are difficult to spot, and yet very much present.

Statists have a wide range of tools, with police welfare checks, mandatory reporters, centralized power structures that will be more powerful than any given cultic figure, and more. And while I think there's a lot to criticize on how statists use their power of coercion, I don't know how a anarchist community would do better, with decentralization and lesser overall tools at their disposal.

Is there a response here, or would anarchists accept that this is a tradeoff for living in an overall better society?

This is a bit of an abstract question, and I don't know how else to word it, but I'm interested in seeing what y'all's take would be on this.

Can humans create any type of society, as in are there limitless ways in which humans can organize themselves? Or is there some kind of "physics" of social organization that make some forms of organization impossible or unviable?

A follow up question: do you suppose there's a "natural" form of human society?

Does anyone have any good resources/texts critiquing “professionalism”? Mainly in context of work settings. I know the broad concept of professionalism as a means of controlling the working class and forcing a conforming to white male heterosexual standards, but was looking for more in depth resources to better articulate my deep distaste for “professionalism” to o the era in the same or similar work spaces.

Hello! I'm brand new in the community.

As it happens I found out I'm the great grand child of whom I have been described to as a "prominent figure in latin-american Anarcho feminism and Anarcho syndicalism" and I have searched for her writings, apparently she even wrote a book though I cannot find it. I was able to get my hands into a newspaper she founded and for which she wrote very scathing articles. This woman was Maria Collazo, if someone happens to know something about her, and I just do not know how to research into her writings and anarchism in general. I never bought a book about it for a Simple reason: in the same way there are many editions and translations of the communist manifest that one shouldn't trust to be correctly translated, I assume anarchism must face the same issue, writings and books that, due to their complexity and high political relevance, when translated by the wrong person, present a twisted version of the meaning and original intent of the authors, resulting in something incongruous or false, and as a total beginner who has very particular interests and very high difficulty absorbing information from text and concentrating in general, absorbing corrupt information is a luxury I cannot afford.

I am slowly reading into the material provided in the forum, but I am also very interested in the effects of capitalism psychology from the viewpoint of anarchist authors and I would very much appreciate guidance and advice on what to read in order to be prepared to do this research and, also, the kinds of widely extended myths and "under-comprehended" concepts and what I need to dive into in order to identify them.

FWI: I am so sorry if you find this difficult to understand, English is not my native language and I also have high difficulty with language in general and communication.

I appreciate your time and help, and wish you all the best.

Kind regards!