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Free association, also known as free association of producers, is a relationship among individuals where there is no
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The anarchist concept of free association is often considered by critics to be utopian or too abstract to guide a transforming society.[3][4]
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Socialists consider a free association the defining feature of developed socialism. A free association would displace the state apparatus in socialism as the role of this association would be to direct the processes of production and the administration of things. This is in contrast to the state in non-socialist and capitalist society, which is the government over people via coercive action.[9] The free association represents a coordinating entity for economic activity that is concerned with administrative decision-making and the flow of goods and services to satisfy demand.[10]
Literature
Since
- The Humanisphere: Anarchist Utopia (L'Humanisphère: Utopie anarchique, 1857) by the libertarian communist Joseph Déjacque.[11]
- anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin.[12]
- New Babylon (1963) by Situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys.[13]
- A World Without Money: Communism (1975–1976) by the French group Friends of 4 Millions of Young Workers.
- Bolo'bolo (1983) by
- The Thin Red Line: Non-market Socialism in the Twentieth Century (1987) by John Crump which offers an account of the ideas of several trends which considered important the free association.[16]
Quotations
It follows from all we have been saying up till now that the communal relationship into which the individuals of a class entered, and which was determined by their common interests over against a third party, was always a community to which these individuals belonged only as average individuals, only insofar as they lived within the conditions of existence of their class — a relationship in which they participated not as individuals but as members of a class. With the community of revolutionary proletarians, on the other hand, who take their conditions of existence [...] under their control, it is just the reverse; it is as individuals that the individuals participate in it. [...]
Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organization is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves.
See also
- Cooperative
- Economic freedom
- Freedom of association
- Self-governance
- Workers' self-management
- Workplace democracy
References
- ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1920). The Wages System.
- ^ Berkman, Alexander (1929). Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism (PDF). New York: Vanguard Press.
- ^ "Misconceptions of Anarchism". Flag Blackened. Archived from the original on 6 February 1998. Retrieved August 30, 2013.
- ^ "Anarchist response to being called utopian?". Anarchy 101. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ Camp, John (1987). The Thin Red Line: Non-Market Socialism in the Twentieth Century Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Martin, François; Dauvé, Gilles (1974). Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement.
- ^ "Council communism - an introduction | libcom.org". libcom.org. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
- ^ Luxemburg, Rosa (1900). Reform or Revolution. Part II. Chapter VII: Co-operatives, Unions, Democracy.
- ^ Engels, Friedrich (1880). Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. "The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society—the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society—this is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not "abolished." It dies out".
- ^ "The Alternative to Capitalism".
- ^ Déjacque, Joseph (1857). The Humanisphere: Anarchist Utopia (in French). Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1892). The Conquest of Bread. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ Nieuwenhuis, Constant (1963). New Babylon (in French). Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ M., P. (1983). Bolo'bolo (in French). Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ M., P. (1983). Bolo'bolo Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ Crump, John (1987). The Thin Red Line: Non-Market Socialism in the Twentieth Century Archived 2019-06-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 July 2013.