Concept
Voluntary society
Overview
libertarian conception of a society entirely of private/cooperative ownership
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The result was formulated as the discovery of the individual. The customary is taken for granted; it operates subconsciously. Breach of wont and use is focal; it forms “consciousness.” The necessary and persistent modes of association went unnoticed. The new ones, which were voluntarily undertaken, occupied thought exclusively. They monopolized the observed horizon. “Individualism” was a doctrine which stated what…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
Close in meaning to Voluntary society; the term itself is not named.
The other class, who are more a product of the Continent than of Great Britain and may be called the revolutionary Socialists, propose to themselves a much bolder stroke. Their scheme is the management of the whole productive resources of the country by one central authority, the general government. And with this view some of them avow as their purpose that the working classes, or somebody in their behalf, should…
John Stuart Mill, Socialism
Close in meaning to Voluntary society; the term itself is not named.
Against other corporations the general public or the unsuccessful competitor has sought legal aid in legislation against "trusts," but this has mainly proved to be futile. It has merely induced a change in form of organization. Nor has it been easy as yet for the law to exercise any effective control over the business corporation on any of the three principles invoked--namely: to prevent monopoly, to secure the…
John Dewey, Ethics
Close in meaning to Voluntary society; the term itself is not named.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.