ABSTRACT

The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Villagers cooperate with a common desire that everyone has the freedom and resources to flourish under their own conceptions of the good life. Everyone operates on principles of mutual concern, tolerance, and respect. They live together happily, without envy, glad to trade value for value, glad to give and share, glad to help those in need, and never disposed to free ride, take advantage of, coerce, or subjugate one another. The moral principles realized in the Clubhouse Village include the principle of voluntary community, the principle of mutual respect, the principle of reciprocity, the principle of social justice, and the principle of beneficence. Capitalists aspire to realize the principles that structure life in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Village on an international scale. This chapter examines the question of whether it is feasible to instantiate the capitalist values of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Village worldwide.