Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · Politics
Proudhon’s positive programme - not just a critique of property but a blueprint: an economy of independent producers and worker-associations exchanging goods at their labour-cost, financed by mutual free credit, with no capitalist profit, rent, or interest skimmed off the top.
You learned that mutualism is Proudhon’s constructive alternative to both capitalism and communism: free producers exchanging at labour-cost (reciprocity), organised in associations, funded by mutual credit through a People’s Bank that abolishes interest. Explain how the pieces fit together.
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