I'm not proposing that an anarchist ought to dismantle the problem and then sit idly by until someone else to fills the niche. Of course we should strive to ma

I'm not proposing that an anarchist ought to dismantle the problem and then sit idly by until someone else to fills the niche. Of course we should strive to make things better, even if it means allowing little hierarchy here or there. I'm just saying that when switch to this mode, we've put our anarchist hat away and are practicing something else. Whatever we are at those times, we're no longer the audience that Graeber is writing for. Of course reality doesn't work like that. You don't have the "burn it down" phase, followed by the "build it better" phase. It's all jumbled up together. But I still think it's helpful to view these two perspectives as different personae.