The Conquest of Bread- Chapter 3.1 audio and study questions

Audio for Chapter 3, Section 1

What do the words anarchy and communism mean to you?
Do you think that one can’t happen without the other, why/why not?

Compared to 500 years ago how dependent are we all on each other?
Do you think we’re more or less interconnected now than in the past?
Do our coping skills for capitalism like hobbies mostly end up requiring more production and exploitation for goods?
Does that harm people nameless to us?

How much labor went into you reading this - can you trace all the steps that exploited labor to produce the circumstances that led to both us using devices to connect right this second?

Since everyone has a part in the world tracking hours worked is flawed, right?
Because if your love inspires someone to create art that inspires someone to be kind that may have only taken a glance but you could improve conditions for millions realistically if the art is spread. How could that glance be weighed less than company time spent building goods you would be fired for using?

Does abolishing wages and time clocks seem reasonable? Who does working benefit now?

Are there potential benefits to reforming aspects of our current situation?
Can communal resource sharing and filling in a time card work together?
What are the benefits to using money and tracking how much work people do in comparison to each other?

Are we all just hoping for communism in absolutely twisted ways by bonding in bigotry?

Aren’t cliques taking the concept of community but requiring the opposite of “to each according to their needs”? A specific example would be a grouping of people who bond over their profession and the tools needed to work in a brand specific group. Isn’t the camaraderie in those spaces us clinging to the concept of being more than individuals? But is it also problematic considering that the bond is materialism? Couldn’t that be prevented if there were no brands but people just connecting over being alive?

How would your life change if you could take what you needed? Are any other fields as welcome as the sciences in regards to sharing goods with the public?

How would your life change if you were allowed access to tools and knowledge of the skills that need those tools just because you’re human?

Why is the easiest example of communism in our current lives disaster relief efforts and how communities look right after one of them? Is it instinctual to be part of a community?

Does it seem necessary from following history to assume that going to full stateless communism is the best option?

Why would we destroy a state just to replace it with one with the same potential for human corruption?