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This is a very good topic but the article does a poor job at explaining it.
The issue with insulin is not really the technical feasibility but the required economical organisation to produce it. How can an anarchist community produce insulin, or anything complex without leaders or economical motivation? This is the question the article fails to answer. I have no doubt it would be feasible but a long argumentation on the subject would be nice to read, instead of this "I'm tired of the tropes, so I must be right" nonsense.
An anarchist community cannot produce insulin - for the very same reason a capitalist or fascist community cannot. When we're talking about industrialized production, we are talking about things a whole lot bigger than merely communities. Simply focusing on community is myopic - a more relevant question would be, "How can an anarchist factory produce insulin (and other medicines)?" It's already a question far more grounded in what already exists.
Also, there is no such thing as "leaderless" organization, and there is no such thing as "leaderless" anarchism.
Yes, and it seems the actual point of confusion is simply how an anarchist society may achieve objectives that require larger scale than the level of local community.