christa wants to read The Operating System by Eric Laursen
picked this up from Bound Together on a whim on a lunch break because I was curious about how he constructs the metaphor and whether it discusses modern social welfare programs (like Covid-19 response) in the context of anarchist alternatives, though this blurb is making me wonder how if it'll be anarchism 101:
Much of the ground Laursen covers in this book is already familiar to most anarchists. He does an adequate job, or better, at all of it. His treatment of the ideological hegemony of the state is exceptional, and deserves to be read alongside thinkers like Chomsky and Hermann