Concept
Collectivist anarchism
Overview
Collectivist anarchism, also called anarchist collectivism and anarcho-collectivism, is an anarchist school of thought that envisions both the collective ownership of the means of production, and the entitlement of workers to the fruits of their own labour, which would be ensured by a societal pact between individuals and collectives. Collectivists considered trade unions to be the means through which to bring about collectivism through a social revolution, where they would form the nucleus for a post-capitalist society.
The tendency was initially conceived as a synthesis of social equality and liberty, by the Russian revolutionary socialist Mikhail Bakunin. It is commonly associated with the anti-authoritarian sections of the International Workingmen's Association and the early Spanish anarchist movement, with whom it continued to hold a strong influence until the end of the 19th century. Eventually, it was supplanted as the dominant tendency of anarchism by anarcho-communism, which advocated for the abolition of wages and the distribution of resources "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".
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But when once their nature is understood, they can, in the hands of the producers working together, be transformed from master demons into willing servants. The difference is as that between the destructive force of electricity in the lightning of the storm, and electricity under command in the telegraph and the voltaic arc; the difference between a conflagration, and fire working in the service of man. With this…
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
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In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour. In Communist society, accumulated labour is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer. In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is…
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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Over-production, and suffering on the part of the masses, the one the cause of the other, that is the absurd contradiction in which it runs its course, and which of necessity requires a control of the forces of production, through a change in the methods of production.
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
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Philosophers who discussed Collectivist anarchism
Related ideas
- Anarchism in Italy
- Federalism
- Anarchism
- Karl Marx
- Trade union
- Anarchist communism
- Mutualism (economic theory)
- Autonomy
- Authoritarianism
- Collective ownership
- Spain
- Social contract
- Working class
- Social revolution
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Social equality
- Dogma
- Friedrich Engels
- Anarcho-syndicalism
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Anti-authoritarianism
- Errico Malatesta
- Communism
- Liberty
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.