Society

• All agree:

  -An ideal society is one without a state

  -An ideal society should be based on personal liberty, rationality, happiness and achieving equilibrium of order

  -No existing forms of authority, coercive or hierarchical relationships

  -A stateless society will allow people's true human nature to flourish

  -Believe in a utopian society
• Bakunin:

  -Associated with anarcho-communism, but far more nuanced and really just a collectivist. Opted for distribution according to work contributed rather than according to need

  -New social arrangements based on common ownership, mutual aid and economic equality
• Kropotkin:

  -Anarcho-communist: distribution of resources according to need, not work contributed

  -Collectivist

  -New social arrangements based on common ownership, mutual aid and economic equality
• Proudhon:

  -Rejects collectivism or trade unionism as it subordinates individual freedom and independence

  -Individuals will form unions of mutual assistance (mutualism), based on mutual aid
• Stirner:

  -Society structured around individualism

  -Utopian system with no social or economic organisation

  -Any 'grouping' is driven by individual goals, not collective motivation
• Goldman:

  -Based on individualism, but accepts that individuals can form cooperative relationships, which in turn facilitate social harmony

  -Belief in mutual aid, voluntarism and common interests to form her stateless society

  -Utopian system with no social or economic organisation

  -Any 'grouping' is driven by individual goals, not collective motivation