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§ The minds · b. 1963 · United States · Theorist

Kevin Carson

Free-market anti-capitalism

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The contemporary theorist who revived mutualism as 'free-market anti-capitalism', arguing that without state subsidy and monopoly, markets would naturally favour small-scale, worker-owned production.

social

Progressive, decentralist, anti-corporate.

economic

Genuinely free markets would dissolve corporate capitalism into mutual ownership.

governance

Stateless, decentralised production and exchange.

Notable for
  • 'Studies in Mutualist Political Economy'
  • Free-market anti-capitalism
  • Decentralised-production theory
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