Proudhonian Mutualism
Proudhon's original doctrine, denouncing property as theft and advocating free mutual credit, federalism of autonomous communities and possession by use, with strong moral reservations about progress and customs.
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Proudhon's original doctrine, denouncing property as theft and advocating free mutual credit, federalism of autonomous communities and possession by use, with strong moral reservations about progress and customs.
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I want to abolish property as theft, with free mutual credit and a federation of autonomous communes where possession comes from use.
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This position is 58.7 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
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This position is 7.9 points from this collection’s median.
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A French philosopher, Proudhon was the first to declare himself an anarchist and formulated mutualism, defending fair exchange, free credit, and use-based property, with the famous phrase that property is theft.
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Most compatible among the 257 schools
Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
Current of John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski that sees industrial civilization and agriculture itself as the root of domination, calling for the end of modern technology and a return to small stateless hunter-gatherer communities.
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FascismThird position43.6 / 100