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My name is Osiris and I am a Tuckerite mutualist who was introduced to the idea of mutualism by a friend of mine, back in February.
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What is a Tuckerite mutualist?
To explain, I think I should first give an explanation as to what it is mutualists in general advocate for, and then what separates the Tuckerites from the Proudhonians.
Mutualists belong to a non-collectivist segment of anarchists. Although we favor democratic control when collective action is required by the nature of production and other cooperative endeavors, we do not favor collectivism as an ideal in itself. We are not opposed to money or exchange. We believe in private property, so long as it is based on personal occupancy and use. We favor a society in which all relationships and transactions are non-coercive, and based on voluntary cooperation, free exchange, or mutual aid. The "market," in the sense of exchanges of labor between producers, is a profoundly humanizing and liberating concept. What we oppose is the conventional understanding of markets, as the idea has been coopted and corrupted by state capitalism.Our ultimate vision is of a society in which the economy is organized around free market exchange between producers, and production is carried out mainly by self-employed artisans and farmers, small producers' cooperatives, worker-controlled large enterprises, and consumers' cooperatives. To the extent that wage labor still exists (which is likely, if we do not coercively suppress it), the removal of statist privileges will result in the worker's natural wage, as Benjamin Tucker put it, being his full product).
What separates Tuckerite mutualists from other varieties is that we are closer to the American individualist anarchist movement. Sorry for the errors in the first post, I sent it by accident.
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