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Anarchism

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The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed sets an anarchist commons on Anarres beside the property, wealth, and state power of Urras. The comparison shows both the capability of mutual aid and the return of hierarchy through scarcity, work assignment, reputation, and conformity when a society abolishes formal rulers but does not make informal power easy to name or contest.

What forms of power remain after private property and formal government have been abolished?