The Take, which you can watch all of starting with part one of nine here, is a Naomi Klein documentary about groups of anarcho-socialist workers who are reinventing the political economy of post-economic-collapse Argentina.

The film makes the implicit case that the state monopoly on violence exists to suppress protest and direct political action in the name of protecting private property.

This is the “everyone’s a consultant” economy I’ve dreamed of, that I want to exist here, actualized. Except let’s call it a “cooperative” economy, or, better, a “bossless” economy.

Because a house divided against itself cannot stand*, and once you divide management from production you create an us-versus-them dynamic that, eventually, will ruin everything. Best to just keep the people that actually do the work.

* This is my liberation theology talking — it’s not very anarchist of me, and the film takes an explicit “no kings, no saviors” anarchist stance.