| Every medieval abbey had a vegetable garden where the monks grew the plants needed to live in autarchy. |
| The fact is, what collapsed in the Soviet Union was not socialism but the Stalinist system of national economic autarchy. |
| Targeted cooperation with producers and workers which were marginalized, to move them from a very weak position to safety and autarchy. |
| And while the distribution of that prosperity is often unequal and unjust, it's hard to see how a retreat to autarchy would make it any less unjust. |
| Finally Corvo is the remotest island of all, where just 500 people live in total autarchy. |
| In other words, can the city be reimagined as commons, or is commoning the realm of tiny acts of autarchy and resistance? |
