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Like the Marxists, the leftist anarchist movements made the mistakes of rejecting liberal democracy and of advocating compulsory collectivism. But they developed a model of the autonomous collective unit which maintains its relevance today, among those that advocate decentralized forms of economic and political organization.
 
Like the Marxists, the leftist anarchist movements made the mistakes of rejecting liberal democracy and of advocating compulsory collectivism. But they developed a model of the autonomous collective unit which maintains its relevance today, among those that advocate decentralized forms of economic and political organization.
  
In the economic context, the automous collective unit is the workers cooperative. As a complement to top-down social reform carried out by the state, the working class movement should focus on building economic democracy from the bottom up, through the creation of cooperatives. A decentralized movement of voluntary association will in the long run allow us simply to replace companies that mistreat their employees, rather than having to conflict with their owners.
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In the economic context, the automous collective unit is the workers cooperative. As a complement to top-down social reform carried out by the state, the working class movement should focus on building economic democracy from the bottom up, through the creation of cooperatives. A decentralized movement of voluntary association will in the long run allow us simply to replace companies that mistreat their employees, rather than having to keep struggling with their owners.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

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