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Introduction
The following discussion represents a reply to some comments from Sandy Irvine from the Greens in Britain. Sandy Irvine was motivated to respond to Ted Trainer’s defence of anarchism – in relation to the Simpler Way scenario. That is, a future with much lower energy use and consumption and production being organized by anarchist political principles.
The following comments come from the perspective of non-market socialism (approximately similar to what I have called previously called the gift economy). See Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman (eds) Life Without Money, Pluto Press, for longer explanations of this perspective and also my home page www.gifteconomy.au. The black writing is from Sandy Irvine and my replies are in blue font.
Terry Leahy
27th November 2016.