Pierre Joseph Proudhon

• Book

  General Idea of the Revolution
• defines mutualism as the mutual exchange of goods
• market socialism
• workers and associations are required to offer products and services at a just price
• property

  things that you use
• envisages the organisation of society: worker based collectives - come together and form federations
• regarded as the starting point for anarchism- his works inspired individualist and collectivist traditions
• property is theft
• property is despotism

  property creates social relations based on domination - leading to exploitation of humans by humans
• possessors without masters - ideal society where individuals have the right to possess the land, property or tools which they use
• Society: Anarchist Federalism

  workers associations and cooperatives- each worker has an equal share in the cooperative- managed by workers

  federations- workers associations and cooperatives are joined voluntarily together in federations

  mutual bank - People's bank would provide free credit to cooperatives - allowing workers to create their own means of production