Mutualism

"I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government."
File:Proudhon.png Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Mutualism, also called Proudhonism or Anarcho-Mutualism (AnMut), is an economically left-wing (but pro-market), Anarchist and culturally variable ideology primarily based upon the writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

He advocates for a socialist system based on a free market economy and usufructs, the introduction of a mutual credit bank, ownership of the means of production by either the workers collectively or by the individual(s) using them, and the representation of trade by equal amounts of labour in the free market.

Additionally, he is strongly in favour of individual liberty and can be seen as the unifying ideology between the social, individualist, and market schools of anarchist thought, and was highly influential in the development of other anarchist ideologies that came after it.

History

In a general sense, mutualism can be considered the original anarchy since the mutualist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person to identify himself as an anarchist.

According to A Mutualist FAQ, mutualism was "the original form taken by the labor movement, first in Great Britain and shortly thereafter in France and the rest of Western Europe. Both mutualist practice and theory arose as part of the broad current of working class radicalism in England, from around the time of the publication of Paine's Rights of Man and the organisation of the first Societies of Correspondence in the 1790s, to the Chartist movement. Mutualism existed for some time as a spontaneous working class practice before it was formalised in theory."

Beliefs

Personality and Behaviour

Mutualism is known to reject traditional currency, instead proposing an alternative system based upon "labour notes", which is sometimes used as a running joke. He often attempts to unify the left and right anarchists through his proposed mix of socialism and a market economy, to varying degrees of success. Sometimes, his relative obscurity is played upon in comics ("what actually is mutualism?").

While he does not have strong established cultural views and leans progressive like his fellow anarchists, he has had a history of occasionally making sexist or anti-Semitic remarks, much to the dismay of his friends (this being a reference to certain views espoused by Proudhon himself).

However, he seems somewhat ashamed of these past mistakes, having been heard saying "my ideal society would have sent me to the guillotine for being too conservative".

How to Draw

File:Mutualism flag.svg

Flag of Mutualism

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Flag of Mutualism (Trade circle design)

Drawing Mutualism is very easy:

Draw a ball,
Draw a black diagonal line,
Fill the space below the line in black and the space above with an orange
Add the eyes and you're done!
(Optional) Draw, in the centre of the ball, two curved arrows which form a circle; an orange one in the black section and a black one in the orange section.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)
	Orange	#F7941E	rgb(247, 148, 30)

Relationships

Friends

Anarchism - Love you daughter! <3
File:Agorismf.png Agorism - My best grandson and fellow lover of anarchism and underground markets.
File:Anin.png Anarcho-Individualism - The Boston Anarchists were Mutualists!
Anarcho-Syndicalism - Worker's unions are cool.
File:Marketsoc.png Market Socialism - I support an economy of decentralized cooperatives.
File:Anmark2.png Left-Wing Market Anarchism - Anarchism and market economics are both based.
File:Libsoc.png Libertarian Socialism - Close friend, both a protector of liberty and the working people.
File:Anego.png Anarcho-Egoism - Loved your milk co-op! (Stop hating on me though!)
File:Front.png Anarcho-Frontierism - Weird yee-haw son.
File:Acol.png Anarcho-Collectivism - I really like you, just wish you understood that markets aren't actually that bad. ~~We also agree on the jews.~~
File:Andist.png Anarcho-Distributism - To say I'm you is very inaccurate, but damn are we really similar. You're basically just me, but more Catholic.
File:LeftRothbardianismPix.png Left-Rothbardianism - Genuinely not bad, and certainly much better than him. Just ditch the private property stuff and you'd be even better.
File:Cosmo.png Cosmopolitanism - "There will no longer be nationality, no longer fatherland, in the political sense of the words: they will mean only places of birth. Man, of whatever race or colour he may be, is an inhabitant of the universe; citizenship is everywhere an acquired right."

Frenemies

File:Distributist.png Distributism - I wouldn't rely on the strong state to do it, but your goal is fine.
Jacobinism - I am greatly thankful for the French Revolution, but your despotism? No, thanks.
File:Sorelia.png National Syndicalism - Same as above, but also authoritarian and illiterate. Please stop citing me. Rousseau's ideology of social contract was indeed flawed, but I'm not a File:Monarch.png monarchist or a File:Fash.png fascist!
Anarcho-Capitalism - I respect your admiration for a free market and property rights within a stateless society, but please do not be so coercive.
Anarcho-Communism - Whilst we both see that capital under the state is terrible, you are too hostile to individualism. Please be more open towards concepts such as markets and property rights.
File:Ormarxf.png Marxism - We used to be friends, but then he called me a File:Utsoc.png "utopian" and accused me of not understanding Hegel.
File:Georgist.png Georgism - Interesting.
File:Illeg.png Illegalism - That's not what I mean when I said "property is theft!"

Enemies

File:Authcap.png Authoritarian Capitalism - Down with the theft, down with the state.
Marxism–Leninism - Despite our origins, I have nothing to do with you. Marx wasn't exactly perfect, but I'm pretty sure he would have a heart attack if he saw what you've become.
File:Corp.png Corporatocracy - Your existence makes good propaganda for our ideology.
File:Conlib.png Conservative Liberalism - The idea of an anti-government and pro-market anarchist must make his head explode.
- File:Conlib.png File:LBubble.pngNo, no. It simply disgusts me.File:RBubble.png