Ido think it is naive to think that there would be no need for some form of enforcement of certain rules, but I do believe that that is last resort and would not make up the norm.

The thing is, you can just as easily argue that even now, force is a last resort and doesn’t make up the norm. I think any of us calling ourselves leftists would agree that it’s far more common than it should be, but the vast majority of conflicts in modern society are resolved without ever resorting to the state’s explicit monopoly on force, or resorting to violating that monopoly.

I also recognize most if not all anarchist experiments end up looking or functioning as libertarian socialist societies. Considering anarchists would and still do also call themselves libertarian socialists, I do not think most anarchists are opposed to that. There are the more extreme anatchists that would disagree, and I can empathize with them even if I don’t entirely agree with them.

I generally regard the two as synonymous except when dealing with specific assertions that are utopian, such as the idea that an anarchist society does not have people making decisions for other individuals. As here.

I also at no point said that specialists should be the ones making certain decisions. I don’t think most anarchists would argue against that.

But at that point people are quite explicitly making decisions for the lives of others.

Sorry this is long and fairly unorganized.

No worries, I didn’t find it either. Quality discussion is quality discussion. If I got bored with it, I’d bounce, don’t worry :p