ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how society and economy could be organized based on anarchist principles such as associations, communes and mutualism. Anarchism’s worldview is organic and assumes wholeness and interconnectedness. Proudhon maintained that society should be organized through decentralized networks of associations. A free society can only be an organic community of communities regulated through a participatory, decentralized form of communitarian anarchism. An anarchist society would be composed of networks of voluntary associations of equal individuals which include both consumers and producers. The anarchist society should be a federative society built by small, self-governing entities, the management of which is chosen by the members. Anarchism understands that providing food, clothing and shelter for all is the most vital concern of political economy. Mutualism is an anarchist school of economy, originally based on the ideas of Proudhon, where each person possesses the means of production.
