ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the difference between how management theory and anarchism think about culture in organizations. It discusses the examples of two cooperatives, a bakery and a construction firm, and show through the words of two of their founders how they have tried to foster a particular anarchist culture. The chapter suggests how an anarchist organizational culture works differently from a mainstream management one with regards to conflict and contradiction. In anarchist organizations, culture is seen quite differently. If culture matters to anarchists, it is because they declare that they are against any form of official authority and so wish to create social orders and cultures that allow people to realize their freedom. Anarchists have devised different forms of collective action so that their common knowledge, based on memory, does not freeze and die. Throughout the history of the anarchist political movement, anarchists have perhaps been more open than many to other cultures.
