Minarcho-Mutualism
Synthesis that unites mutualism with a minimal state, combining fair exchange, cooperatives, and free credit with a public structure reduced to the essential functions of protecting rights, contracts, and freedoms.
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In one sentence
I want mutualism's cooperatives and free credit added to a minimal state, restricted to protecting essential rights, contracts and freedoms.
Political topics
Profile across mindedfolk
- Very strong · Federal
Structure
- Very strong · Democracy
Representation
- Very strong · Liberty
Power
- Very strong · Multiculturalism
Immigration
- Very strong · Internationalist
Nationalism
- Balanced
Economy
- Very strong · Free market
Free market
- Very strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Leaning · Traditionalist
Morality
- Leaning · Technology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Structure
Leans further toward federal than 89% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 38This ideology 91
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Morality
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Ideology median 43This ideology 40
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
PoliticallyJosiah WarrenInventor, Manufacturer, and Anarchist Philosopher95%
SociallyVitalik ButerinProgrammer94%
EconomicallyDavid RicardoEconomist98%
Other compatible profiles
Intellectual lifeLysander SpoonerJurist93%
Political theoryBenjamin TuckerAnarchist93%
Political theorySatoshi NakamotoCreator of Bitcoin92%
Intellectual lifeHal FinneyCryptographer92%
EconomicsGustave de MolinariPolitical economist92%
ActivismEzra HeywoodIndividualist anarchist91%
Intellectual lifePhil ZimmermannCryptographer91%
EconomicsMurray RothbardEconomist91%
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
Colorado (United States)
Liberal Democratic regionIn October 2026 Democrat Jared Polis governs with a Democratic majority. Abortion is protected, cannabis and psychedelics are legal, the TABOR tax cap still applies, and clean-energy targets are in force. Polis leaves office in January 2027.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyCalifornia (United States)Techno-progressive region84%
SociallyVirginia (United States)Moderate Democratic region88%
EconomicallyArgentinaFederal republic with market reforms95%
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%
SociallyParis CommuneMarch–May 187178%
EconomicallyDutch Republic (United Provinces)1581–179594%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Libertarian
- Libertarian
Geolibertarianism
Synthesis of libertarianism and Georgism that combines free markets and individual freedoms with the taxation of land value, seen as a common resource, to fund the minimal state without punishing labor.
- Libertarian
Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism
Current that unites free markets and individual freedoms with concern for social justice, holding that economic freedom must also concretely improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable.
- Libertarian
Classical Liberalism
Original branch of liberalism that defends natural rights, property, free markets, and a minimal state, seeing individual freedom and the strict limitation of power as the foundations of a just society.
Closest in other spectrums
- 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.
- Anarchist
Egoist Anarchism
Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
- Right
Neoliberalism
Current that advocates free markets, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal discipline, reducing the state's economic role and trusting competition and monetary stability as engines of prosperity.
The most distant ideology
ReactionaryismFar-Right29%