'share the middle east in a federation of free communes'

Nice idea, but where are you going to start? Probably after a revolutionary crisis in one country, since capitalism still hasn't outgrown the need for the nation state. And how are you going to defend your occupied factories and communal farms and workers' shura in that country? Both the US and reactionary locals are going to try to wipe you off the face of the earth. Without an army, a repressive apparatus for the bad guys (prisons etc) and all sorts of centralising/cophering administrative structures (a shura of shuras for instance?), ie a state, albeit a revolutionary state, you will not last a day. That's what history suggests to me anyway.