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| − | Like the Marxists, the leftist anarchist movements made the mistakes of rejecting liberal democracy and of advocating compulsory collectivism. But the anarchists developed a model of the autonomous collective unit which maintains its relevance today as a decentralized form of political or economic organization. Note that, contrary to the compulsory collectivization of Marxist socialism, membership in an autonomous collective unit is entirely ''voluntary'', and an individual can withdraw from the group at any time. | + | Like the Marxists, the leftist anarchist movements made the mistakes of rejecting liberal democracy and of advocating compulsory collectivism. But the anarchists developed a model of the autonomous collective unit which maintains its relevance today as a decentralized form of political or economic organization. Note that, contrary to the compulsory collectivization of Marxist socialism, membership in an autonomous collective unit is entirely ''voluntary'', and an unsatisfied individual can withdraw from the group at any time. |
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. | 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. | ||
