Economy

• All agree:

  -Makes rational economic decisions, moral judgements on what a just value of a product, skill or labour time is

  -Any relationship will be based on humanism, not exploitation

  -'Equilibrium of order' only created naturally, not by state imposition of hierarchical structures of power and exploitation that protect the elite

  -Rejects capitalism
• Bakunin:

  -Collectivist, therefore has a humanist approach to the economy where the system is based on provision of all subsistent needs

  -Commune/federation of SAME SKILLED workers

  -Trade between different communes as everyone is rational

  -No private ownership

  -If there is an appropriation of money, it must be equally divided amongst all members of the Federation
• Kropotkin:

  -Collectivist, therefore has a humanist approach to the economy where the system is based on provision of all subsistent needs

  -Commune of MIXED SKILLED workers, built from the base up

  -Trade between different communes as everyone is rational

  -Anarcho-communism: Shared and collective ownership

  -No private ownership
• Proudhon:

  -Collectivist in as much as he believed in the common ownership of the means of production

  -Agreed that private ownership was a right

  -Trade possible, where the value is decided by mutual negotiation based on rational thinking

  -Worth based on rational valuation of labour
• Stirner:

  -Free market based on mutually agreed value- equilibrium of order comes as all parties in the transaction are rational and free to make self-interested decisions

  -Ego a determining factor, driven by self-interest

  -Supports private ownership
• Goldman:

  -An economy based on mutualism, where goods are valued on the basis of labour not by artificial market worth

  -Groups are mutually co-operative, built from the base up

  -Trade possible, where the value is decided by mutual negotiation based on rational thinking