This was written in 2010 after a request from Shift Magazine for a communist-anarchist critique of mutualism. It focuses on Proudhon’s mutualism rather than the American version associated with Tucker (this is better termed Individualist Anarchism, I think). This was the immediate forerunner of revolutionary anarchism, specifically collectivist anarchism which later developed into communist anarchism, and shares much with it. Its title deliberately echoes Daniel Guérin’s Proudhon oui et non.
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The Economics of Anarchy
This is based on a talk give at the Radical Routes Conference “Practical Economics: radical alternatives to a failed economic system” on the 23rd May, 2009. Radical Routes is a network of co-operatives. It appeared in Black Flag (no. 230)
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The “science” of class warfare
An article on the “Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment” and how it is simply a rationale for class warfare (by the rich). Prompted by Edmund Phelps winning the (non-)Nobel prize for economics in October of 2006.
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Sacrifices are required to appease Capital, says Bank of England
Why working class people need not pay the price of the mistakes of capital. Written for Freedom in 2006.
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Capitalism is losing its Barings?
This first appeared in Scottish Anarchist Number 2 (1995) and was written in response to the collapse of Barings Bank. It discusses the issues associated for anarchists and labour with the increased globalisation of capitalism. Some slight changes have been made to fix typos and add references.
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