>If things were flipped around, with the government being socialist, you couldn't escape that. I'm curious as to why. >but in your case this is a very minor i

>If things were flipped around, with the government being socialist, you couldn't escape that. I'm curious as to why. >but in your case this is a very minor issue I don't think that's true; the state still has power over you and the power to compel you to pay money and live by its (potentially and actually unjust) laws. That's fundamentally opposed to anarchists' goals. The goals of the anarchists aren't only immediately practical (communal production) but long-term practical as well. If one's goal is to eliminate unjust hierarchy (just as the liberal democrat's goal is to eliminate rights violations) then it won't do to live in a few communes here and there. There must be reform of the whole system.