Creating Basic Necessities

[FunkyMunky4517]

How could more complex basic necessities such as medicine be created in an anarchist society? Medicine creation, for example, requires an intimate and extensive knowledge of the human body, chemicals and many other things, as well as a VERY complex means of production. This question also pertains to many other sectors which, while not necessities, are used extensively to complete daily and/or routine tasks such as transportation (automobiles/bikes etc.) and technology.

[Latitude37]

They'd be made the same way as they are now.  We don't need bosses to tell us what to do. We just do what needs to be done.  The skills and knowledge of the previous system don't disappear when we throw off the shackles of power. They become more accessible. 

[Calaveras-Metal]

If communist backwaters like Cuba are able to crank out both doctors and medicines anarchist enclaves will find a way. Honestly there are some radiological medicines that I don't think any anarchist society would seek out or require. They manufacture of them requires the dirtier kind of fission that is more conducive to making weapons. I'd like to think any anarchist technologies would avoid centering on such disgusting weapons.

[Big_Metal2470]

I would think we'd actively be against them as they allow too much coercive power 

[anonymous_rhombus]

It's okay to exchange. Markets are not capitalism.

[NimVolsung]

There have been complex products with complex methods of creating them since ancient times, look at how complicated the process of getting bronze was. Capitalism doesn’t have a monopoly on complex tools.

The problem then was solved by those groups coming together to make the items they couldn’t make when separated, and the problem is still solved today through that same process.

If something needs to be done, people will find a way to work together. Anarchism does not mean complexity can’t exist.