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Note on Mutualism and the Market-Form

July 1, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur
Related Links: “Toward a General Theory of Archy“ “Escheat and Anarchy“ “Archy vs. Anarchy“ There is no doubt in my mind that mutualism has as much to offer in the ongoing conversation about establishing meaningfully anarchistic economic relations as any anarchist tendency, whether it is based in the plumbline anti-monopolism of Benjamin R. Tucker or the anti-absolutist social science of Proudhon. The part of our project that does indeed involve a kind of “market anarchism” seems bound to continue to play an important role among those not absolutely wedded to market abolitionism, if only because it is informed by a […]
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On Enewetak (from The Distributive Passions)

May 15, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur
This immediately follows the section I posted May 2. It originally appeared on the defunct Distributive Passions blog. Bradford Peck was the author of The World A Department Store, and prime mover, along with the Vroomans, in the cooperative movement in New England. Much of this has already taken another shape in the rewriting, but I was reminded of this version by Charles Johnson’s comments on the different ways of envisioning markets. The contrasting visions have certainly been around for a long time… The Canteen It’s more like a swap meet than a food stand or restaurant, with a menu […]