What is Mutualism?
Mutualism is a market-friendly anarchism in which workers own their tools and exchange goods through cooperatives and mutual credit, without landlords or a central state. It is left of centre and strongly libertarian.
Core principles
- Occupancy and use
- Cooperatives
- Mutual credit
On the PoliMap chart this cell runs from -6 to -2 on the economic axis and -10 to -6 on the social axis. Negative economic scores are left; positive social scores are authoritarian.
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