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Skyhilist
20th February 2013, 19:19
I know labeling is often times useless, but I'm interested in knowing here what specific type of economy would typically be applied under anarcho-collectivism in order to compare how such an economy might possibly be implemented under a non-anarcho-collectivist society. It doesn't seem to fit into gift economics, market economics, or even resource-based economics, so just what type of economy would anarcho-collectivism usually have? Is there a specific name for it?

Decolonize The Left
20th February 2013, 19:35
I know labeling is often times useless, but I'm interested in knowing here what specific type of economy would typically be applied under anarcho-collectivism in order to compare how such an economy might possibly be implemented under a non-anarcho-collectivist society. It doesn't seem to fit into gift economics, market economics, or even resource-based economics, so just what type of economy would anarcho-collectivism usually have? Is there a specific name for it?

I don't know what you mean by "anarcho-collectivism" but anarchism and Marxism are completely compatible.

Skyhilist
20th February 2013, 19:39
I don't know what you mean by "anarcho-collectivism" but anarchism and Marxism are completely compatible.

I mean the ideology of the "labor voucher" system.

TheRedAnarchist23
20th February 2013, 20:01
As the name sugests, anarcho-collectivism works in a collectivist economy.

Collectivism does not necessarily mean labour vouchers.

Tim Cornelis
20th February 2013, 20:08
Anarcho-collectivism doesn't really exist. 'Contemporary anarcho-collectivism' is an anachronism really. It was the anarcho-communist movement surrounding the First International. They used that name to differentiate themselves from mutualist anarchists and Marxist communists simultaneously, but they were communists nonetheless. Labour vouchers and communism are compatible. There will always be some consumer goods that will require rationing under communism, this could be done in natura, or through labour credits.
"Anarcho-collectivists" also advocated distribution according to needs, but did not anticipate this to be immediately possible upon the begin of the revolution.

Ideas on Social Organization by James Guillaume (1844-1916) is seen as one of the few texts on 'Bakuninist anarcho-collectivist' views on how society should be organised:


Everyone will draw what he needs from the abundant social reserve of commodities ... The practice of selling, which was adopted as a sort of deterrent to immoderate consumption, will be abolished; the communal banks will no longer sell commodities, they will distribute them in accordance with the needs of the consumers

TheRedAnarchist23
20th February 2013, 20:11
In other word anarcho-collectivism is an unreal ideology, since it is exactly like anarcho-communism.

Crabbensmasher
20th February 2013, 20:41
Isn't Anarcho-Syndicalism the one which is more open to using labour vouchers? I know they used them during the Spanish civil war, which some people use as an example of anarcho syndicalism. I don't know enough to say myself though