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 topics
Profile across mindedfolk
- Very strong · Federal
Structure
- Strong · Democracy
Representation
- Strong · Liberty
Power
- Leaning · Assimilation
Immigration
- Strong · Internationalist
Nationalism
- Strong · Public
Economy
- Balanced
Free market
- Strong · Irreligious
Religion
- Strong · Traditionalist
Morality
- Balanced
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Structure
Leans further toward federal than 94% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 38This ideology 96
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Free market
On Free market, it sits close to the catalog median.
Ideology median 61This ideology 55
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
PoliticallyThomas JeffersonStatesman88%
SociallyPer Albin HanssonSwedish prime minister88%
EconomicallyOlof PalmeStatesman100%
Other compatible profiles
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Intellectual lifeGeorge OrwellWriter88%
ActivismTed KaczynskiTerrorist and anti-technology writer86%
ActivismEmiliano ZapataRevolutionary86%
Intellectual lifeRui BarbosaJurist and senator86%
PoliticsJames MadisonStatesman83%
PoliticsBenjamin FranklinStatesman and scientist83%
Political theoryRudolf RockerAnarcho-syndicalist theorist83%
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Supervised ethnoconfessional federationA post-Dayton state split between the Croat-Bosniak Federation and the Serb Republika Srpska, Bosnia has a tripartite ethnic presidency, an international high representative, politics stalled by ethnic vetoes and a European Union candidacy.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyGreenland (Denmark)Arctic-social autonomous territory84%
SociallyAlaska (United States)Rentier frontier region84%
EconomicallyScotland (United Kingdom)Independentist social-democratic nation99%
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 Catalonia1936–193982%
SociallyFrench Third Republic1870–194083%
EconomicallyWeimar Republic1919–193397%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Anarchist
- 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
Anarcho-primitivism
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.
- 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.
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 Distributism
Fusion of distributism and Georgism promoting widespread family ownership of productive property combined with land value taxation to prevent monopolies and state collectivism.
The most distant ideology
Techno-SocialismRadical Left40%