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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)The communities I'm familiar with have strong ties of friendships to other communities all over the world, people travel around and visit other communities, move around and live in many communities during their life, building social capital. So when the main building in a community that I lived in burned, other communities offered their help and support. Not just the people with personal ties to the community in trouble, but through those people communities as whole, also people who had not known about that community before they heard that they could use some help.
The key for building social capital and networks of communities and friends is that the communities don't need to compete against each other for resources, as they are either living relatively self-sufficiently or learning to do so.
Such communities and networks can use their surplus production also for large scale technological cooperation projects without coercion from authoritarian hierarchy. So if they wanted to build a space city for rocket scientists and theoretical physicists, communities with surplus power to give would first build a factory to produce e.g. community scale renewable energy technology so that more communities could produce surplus to build and power space city. All this is possible in terms of gift economy.
Nation states are entities based more on competition than on cooperation, so they use the resources they extract from those below in pecking order to uphold the pecking order. Weapons, surveillance tech etc. control mechanisms are the first priority of power hierarchies competing against each other and oppressing working classes.