ABSTRACT

This chapter gives a broad outline of anarchist analyses of economy, or the way that anarchists tends to define and critique capitalism. It also provides a sketch of anarchist positions on post-capitalism, which are tied to questions of how anarchists define and critique capitalism and develop practices in opposition to it. In the past, some anarchists would advocate for an "anarchism-without-adjectives", perhaps most famously advanced by thinkers such as Voltairine de Cleyre, to indicate a tolerance for many visionary (and strategic) differences. Similarly, there have been (and are) anarchists who advocate for specific proposals. The chapter discusses some major proposals in detail: Mutualism; collectivism; and (anarchist) communism. It concludes with the author's own argument about how people might create some tenuous agreements about economy, particularly if we focus on a human need like food.