Agricultural productivity today is hundreds of times higher than in Emma Goldman’s time. Today, one farmer alone can farm many thousands of acres that would’ve taken thousands of people back then. The whole productivity argument has collapsed in light of modern automation technology.

Today we might collectivize schools and research and medicine and other labour-intensive service work which has heavily resisted automation, but mining and manufacturing and agriculture are just too highly automated for that. Except maybe fruit picking, but I’ll say no thanks to being a fruit picker! All power to them who want to be fruit-picker collective fruit farm farmers!