Questions for Bakunin fans
Questions for Bakunin fans…
If the following excerpt from the summary of Bakunin’s collectivist anarchism on Wikipedia is approximately accurate:
“Collectivist anarchism (also known as anarcho-collectivism) is a doctrine spearheaded by Mikhail Bakunin that advocated the abolition of the state and private ownership of the means of production, with the means of production instead being owned collectively and controlled and managed by the producers themselves. Workers would be paid in democratic organizations based of the amount of time they contributed to production. These salaries would be used to purchase commodities in a communal market.”
1. Is there any reason not to consider each collective a “firm” or “company” for purposes of using the academic understanding of how markets work to bolster the case for the practicality of such a system of production?
2. Is the production of a service potentially just as valid of an economic pursuit for a collective as the production of material goods?
3. Is there any reason not to consider production of security the production of a legitimate service?
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