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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In one sentence
I want to abolish property as theft, with free mutual credit and a federation of autonomous communes where possession comes from use.
Political axes
Profile across the 12 axes
- Very strong · Federal
Structure
- Strong · Democracy
Representation
- Strong · Liberty
Power
- Leaning · Assimilation
Immigration
- Strong · Pacifist
Diplomacy
- Strong · Non-interventionist
Intervention
- Strong · Public
Economy
- Leaning · Free market
Control
- Leaning · Protectionism
Trade
- Strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Strong · Traditionalist
Morality
- Balanced
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Structure
Leans further toward federal than 94% of the 253 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 38This ideology 96
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Technology
On Technology, it sits close to the catalog median.
Ideology median 58This ideology 50
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyTed KaczynskiTerrorist and anti-technology writer87%
SociallyGeorge OrwellWriter86%
EconomicallyJohn ZerzanPhilosopher100%
Other compatible profiles
Intellectual lifeRui BarbosaJurist and senator86%
PoliticsThomas JeffersonStatesman86%
ActivismEmiliano ZapataRevolutionary85%
Intellectual lifeLeo TolstoyWriter84%
ActivismMahatma GandhiPolitical leader84%
Intellectual lifeHenry David ThoreauWriter83%
Intellectual lifeG. K. ChestertonWriter82%
Political theoryAnton PannekoekMarxist theorist82%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
France
Social-republican republicA European semi-presidential republic, France combines a strong republican and secular tradition, a robust welfare state, a mixed economy, and a prominent diplomatic, cultural, and military role in the European Union and the world.
Other close countries
Zapatista Chiapas (Mexico)
Indigenous-communal autonomyZapatista territories in southern Mexico, self-governed since 1994 by mostly Maya communities through caracoles and Good Government Councils, rejecting political parties and the state, with cooperative agrarian economy and strong women's leadership.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallySwitzerlandLiberal direct democracy82%
SociallyPennsylvania (United States)Divided industrial region85%
EconomicallySri LankaBuddhist-national republic89%
The most distant
Free Territory (Makhnovshchina)
1918–1921During the Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyAnarchist Aragon and Catalonia1936–193983%
SociallyOld Swiss Confederacy1291–179878%
EconomicallySocialist Yugoslavia1945–199286%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
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Anarcho-primitivism
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- Anarchist
Kropotkinian Anarchism
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
- Anarchist
Mutualism
Anarchist current founded by Proudhon that advocates fair exchange, free credit, and use-based property, with producers and cooperatives trading among themselves without exploitation, bosses, or a central state.
Closest in other spectrums
- Right
Agrarianism
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.
- Center
Direct Democracy
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.
- Center
Georgist Reformism
Current created by Henry George proposing to fund society with a single tax on land value, holding that land rent belongs to everyone and that labor and capital should not be taxed.
The most distant ideology
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