we also requipe a broader locus for self-management than industry, notably communities and municipalities. Marxism and syndicalism again fail us in developing this locus owing to their economistic and class biases. If self-management is to be meaningfully counterposed to hierarchical management, we require not only a new, nonhierarchical social context but a new, non-hierarchical technology that will replace the factory as a socia! and economie model. This new technology is already at band. Il exists as a « people's technology » in the form of small, human-scaled, easily comprehensible community technologies based on decentralized gardening, solar, and wind-power techniques. These technologies will not replace existing ones without far-reaching socia! changes but they comprise the symbols for a resurgence of popular control over the materiai and civic conditions of life. The issues they pose must be taken up by the libertarian movement, for in the absence of a libertarian consciousness, the new technologies and the movements they symbolize may be absorbed by the prevailing society and a historic opportunity will be lost perhaps irrevocably. 239
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