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How will infrastructure work in an anarchist society?
I'm in agreement about the need to burn *it all down now. I'm wondering how the survivors rebuild to basics.
I haven't read any anarchist theory or philosophy. I'm totally on board with mutual aid, which seems to me to be easy to enact for things like food, shelter, and clothing. Lots of people know how to forage and garden, repair and build structures, and turn raw fibers into something wearable.
Very few people know how to maintain or build water systems and electrical grids. Or make solar panels.
I've got hope, and want to learn about the way forward from people who've been thinking about this far longer than I have.
ETA: clarifying footnote
*social structures, not infrastructure
@Fishercat
I think anarchy is just a tool to the next hierarchy, it is a short term clearance;) it can't live long. The winning strategy is cooperation. Always watch Nature, in nature there is no anarchy , anarchy can't win.
My reading recommendation is to read or listen to an audiobook of "The Conquest of Bread" by Petr Kropotkin.
He is the originator for the term "anarcho-communism", and while the technology and society discussed in the book is antiquated, it being over 100 years old, it's beautifully written, easily accessible, and not too long. The first three chapters I always recommend, but for questions on infrastructure you would have to look further inside
The abbr. answer: worker federations
First and the most important infrastructure is community.