Left Market Anarchist Zines: Mutualism

Anarchism: What Is Is And What It Isn't

Jo Labadie was a prominent labor organizer and mutualist whose vast collection of anarchist and socialist texts became the seed of the Labadie collection at the University of Michigan.

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Jo Labadie

Anarchist Economics

An old mutualist zine from many decades ago.

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Red Lion Press

Anarchist Ends Market Means

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Topics: anarchism, mutualism
Authors: Emmi Bevensee
Sources: http://c4ss.org/

Austrian and Marxist Theories of Monopoly Capital: A Mutualist Synthesis

But if both facets of our understanding of the present system (that corporate capitalism is exploitative; and that its exploitation depends solely on the state) were sincerely held by libertarians of left and right, it could serve as the basis for an alliance against state capitalism. The Left must be made to understand that their proper grievance is not against private property (properly understood), or markets (in the sense of free exchange between equal, unprivileged producers), but with the state. The Right must be made to understand the extent to which Wal-Mart, Microsoft, and GM are parasitic outgrowths of the state, and not products of “good old American know-how” or “elbow grease.” If both sides are sincerely motivated primarily by an oppostion to statist coercion, rather than a reflexive sympathy for big business or aversion to market exchange, the potential exists for coexistence on the basis of something like Voltairine de Cleyre’s “anarchism without adjectives.

Topics: anarchism, mutualism, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Date: 2004

Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis

Historically, the village commune and open field system were, almost universally, the dominant property model in societies which, so far in human history, came closest to approximating the libertarian ideal of statelessness and voluntary association: the neolithic village societies between the agricultural revolution and the rise of the state..

Topics: mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

Cost Plus: The Waste Production Economy

Topics: mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

Desktop Manufacturing: A Homebrew Industrial Revolution

As small businesses close their doors and corporations lay off thousands, the unemployed will of necessity shift their focus from finding a new formal job to fashioning new livelihoods...

Topics: mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

Dyer Lum and the American Anarchist Movement

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Frank H Brooks
Date: 1993

Equitable Commerce

The essay, not the book.

Topics: anarchist, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: Josiah Warren
Publisher: Devil's Claw Distro
Date: 1852

Healthcare - A Crisis of Artificial Scarcity

In healthcare, subsidies to the most costly and high-tech forms of medicine crowd out cheaper and decentralized alternatives, so that cheaper forms of treatment--even when perfectly adequate from the consumer's standpoint--become less and less available. There are powerful institutional pressures for ever more radical monopoly. At the commanding heights of the centralized state and centralized corporate economy--so interlocked as to be barely distinguishable--problems are analyzed and solutions prescribed from the perspective of those who benefit from radical monopoly.

Topics: introduction, mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

Just A Downturn: The Decline And Fall Of Sloanist Mass Production

The current economic crisis is not a cyclical downturn but a permanent structural shift -- away from the state-subsidized Sloanist mass production and towards an economy of relocalized manufacturing.

Topics: mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

Market Anarchy #2, 'Capitalistic' Anarchism? The Individual and The Communist

Two market anarchists, Rosa and Voltairine, write a hypothetical dialogue around markets and the use of 'capitalist' as an accusation for their beliefs.

Topics: historical, market anarchy series, mutualism
Authors: Rosa Slobodinsky, Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher: Market Anarchy Series
Date: 1891

Moloch Mass Production Economy

How were existing institutional interests able to thwart the revolutionary potential of electrical power, and diverty neotechnic technologies into paleotechnic channels?

Topics: mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

Mutual Banking

William Batchelder Greene was born in 1819, in the northeastern Massachusetts town of Haverhill, the son of poet, publisher, and Boston Postmaster Nathaniel Greene. A free-market libertarian and individualist anarchist, he was a member of the socialist First International and shaped/launched 'mutualism' with Proudhon.

Topics: historical, mutualism
Authors: William B Greene
Date: 1849

Society After State Capitalism

Past examples and current experiments in creating resilient local communities are especially promising building blocks for a post-corporate society.

Topics: ecology, mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

State Socialism and Anarchism

Benjamin R. Tucker was born in Massachusetts in 1854, educated in a Quaker school, and raised in the radical intellectual environment of the Boston area at the time. He found himself drawn into anarchism as a young man and became a journalist and editor. After working for just over a decade at the Boston Daily Globe, he founded the journal Liberty, which became one of the most prominent outlets for anarchism in the Gilded Age.

Topics: anarchism, historical, introduction, mutualism, theory
Authors: Benjamin Tucker
Date: 1888

The Ethics of Labor Struggle: A Free Market Perspective

Topics: anarchism, mutualism, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson

The Free Market As Full Communism

As surprising as it might seem, there’s a strong parallel between this free market vision of abundance and the Marxist vision of full communism... Much as capitalist production started out in tiny islands inside the larger feudal economy and later became the core of a new, dominant social formation, commons-based peer production is the core around which the post-capitalist economy will eventually crystallize.

Topics: anarchism, introduction, mutualism, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Date: 2012

The Historical Origins of Mutualism

Part of the longer Mutualist FAQ

Topics: historical, mutualism
Authors: Shawn Wilbur, others

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand

Corporate Capitalism as a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Topics: anarchism, introduction, mutualism
Authors: Kevin A Carson
Date: 2001
Sources: http://mutualism.org/

The Philosophy of Progress

How then are things connected and engendered? How are beings produced and how do they disappear? How is society and nature transformed? This is the sole object of science. The notion of Progress, carried into all spheres of consciousness and understanding, becoming the basis of practical and speculative reason, must renew the entire system of human knowledge, purge the mind of its last prejudices, replace the constitutions and catechisms in social relations, teach to man all that he can legitimately know, do, hope and fear: the value of his ideas, the definition of his rights, the rule of his actions, the purpose of his existence. The theory of Progress is the railway of liberty.

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: PJ Proudhon
Date: 1853

The State: Its Nature, Object, and Destiny

Here Proudhon presents his critical remarks against the positions of state socialists, like Louis Blanc and Pierre Leroux, who were under the illusion that the State-Master can be magically transformed by them into the State-Servant, at the service of all the people.

Topics: historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: PJ Proudhon
Date: 1849

The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Born into poverty and plagued by it her entire life, educated by nuns in a convent school, chronically ill, the survivor of a nearly successful assassination attempt, and dead at a tragically early age, Voltairine de Cleyre doesn't seem a likely candidate to become what Paul Avrich called 'a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist.' But de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or any other country. Greatly admired by her contemporaries for her brilliant writing and tireless schedule of public speaking, her ability to approach the most complex issues with a mixture of common sense, passion, and clarity makes her works as relevant today as they were a century ago.

Topics: anarchism, feminism, historical, mutualism
Authors: Criss Crass, Sara Baase, Sharon Presley, Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher: AK Press
Date: 2004

Thermidor of the Progressives

Progressive intellectuals have become attached to the fortunes of the large bureaucratic organization in the same way that the politiques were attached to the court of the Sun King.

Topics: mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

Traditional Denial of Government

From The General Idea Of Revolution.

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism
Authors: PJ Proudhon
Date: 1851

We Are All Degrowthers, We Are All Ecomodernists

The problem is compounded by the fact that both advocates of degrowth and its ecomodernist critics often fail to clearly define, in the course of debate, just what they mean respectively by the terms “growth” and “degrowth.” It’s easier by far to pick up on what emotional associations those terms carry for them.

Topics: ecology, mutualism, studies, theory
Authors: Kevin Carson
Publisher: Center for a Stateless Society
Sources: http://www.c4ss.org/

What Is Mutualism

An introduction to mutualism from the 1920s

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: Clarence Lee Swartz
Date: 1927

Who Is The Somebody

Somebody gets the surplus wealth that labor produces and does not consume. Who is the Somebody?

Topics: anarchism, historical, mutualism, theory
Authors: Benjamin Tucker
Date: 1881