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Socialism is a waste of time.
Skip to the end step of anarchy, of which SolarPunk is.
Anarchism is a kind of socialism. It is a society which is structured as to eliminate rulership, which inherently means giving the people control over the means of production, which is the core of socialism.
You can't make anarchism happen without meeting the goals of socialism too. I don't accept any of the flavours of anarchism that don't look after vulnerable members of society. Anarchism is anti-ruler, and not looking after the vulnerable leaves an opening for rulers to return to dominate and exploit those people under the guise of being their saviours, or just because they are, you know, vulnerable.
If you've learned that socialism is statist, that's just statists coopting the term. There is nothing in the concept that requires a state unless you believe a state is necessary to organise people, which obviously anarchists don't.
Ancap aren't real anarchist (nor socialist) to begin with.