Buenos Aires in Anarchy?

So I'm skyping with a friend, discussing anarchism in Argentina. He tells me that right now in Argentina there is a growing syndicalist movement and the country's capital, Buenos Aires, is almost cut off from the federal government. After Argentina's economy collapsed, workers started expropriating their factories and ran them democratically. Now, they are very close to something like a stateless, mutualist market economy. These workers are extremely resentful towards the state; they resist taxation and just do it their way. It sounds pretty amazing.

Maybe I should move to Buenos Aires for a few years, no?

Here is the history of anarchism in Argentina.

Here's an article on the situation.



Edit:

I thought I'd get Kevin's opinion on this topic, and this is what he said via Email:

Thanks, Julia. I read the Lavaca Collective's collection on the
recuperated enterprises a few years ago, but I hadn't seen this
particular article.

One of the interesting things about it is that the workers' experience
managing the recuperated factories gave the lie to the standard MBA
myth that labor costs are the biggest expense, and the way to cut unit
costs is to hammer down on labor. They found that senior management
salaries were actually the biggest expenses.

Also, in the absence of formal training in accounting, they were
forced to reinvent what they didn't even realize was actually Henry
Ford's "cash accounting" (in his words, if you've got more cash in the
same at the end of the week you're running in the black). That is,
incidentally, what lean accounting advocates promote in place of the
typical MBA obsession with ROI and direct labor hours.

So the next time someone tells you "socialism doesn't work" and points to the USSR as an example, ask them about today's Argentina.