@re@d.jimfulner.com There are few books I’d recommend more highly. It definitely does not explain in practical terms how “anarchism” could/would work, or exactly how different instances of human organization have been “anarchistic” — but it is a super engaging look through history at the different creative ways that humans have structured social, political, and economic realities. And it is explicitly built around values of human freedom. For me, it opened up a lot of questions I’m still working on figuring answers to — most pertinent to your question: “how were the pre-invasion political and economic systems of the Americas, being isolated from the world-system that eventually culminated in European colonialism, able to create so much freedom for people and communities? How can we learn from those examples as we try to live the right ways now?”