Freedom, Society, and State - Ludwig von Mises Institute

welfare state such as John Rawls.
Box [6] e n ta i Iss everei imita t i ons on the rna r ke t •
Democracy is also rejected in favor of rule by elites.
It includes the mercantilists and cameralists of the
eighteenth century, and the extreme conservatives as
well as the exponents of fascism and nazism such as
Rockwell and Gentile.
Box [7]. entails the rejection of the state coupled
wi th a pronounced movement toward a marketless economy.
T his would inc1ude the a narch0 - colI e c t i vism of Ba kun in,
and the more extreme anarcho-communism of Kropotkin.
Box [8] entai Is a social ist economy coupled with
some form of limited statism. It would include the
quasi-anarchist ic Guild Socialism with its reliance on
fun c t ionaIr e pre sentat ion, wh ere the 0 n 1y r ole for the
state is to mediate between the functional groups when
controversies could not be otherwise resolved. Close to
t his w0 u 1 d b e F a b ian ism (1 8 8 9) wit hit s em phas i son
universal suffrage and municipal or local control of
industry.
Box [9] entails a socialist or communist economic
framework with planning to be done through the instrumen
t a lit Y 0 f the s tat e • This wo u Idinc Iude the Br i tis h
Labor Party (1937) with its call for nationalization of
industry and a 1t general state plan." Close to this is
Fa b ian ism (19 0 8) wit h em p has i s on na tiona I i za t ion 0 f
sue h i n d u s t r i e s as wa t e r wo r ks, the mine s, and the ha r ­
bors, as well as a large dose of state planning. Also
included in this category would be Marxism, which advocated
a planned economy, but one in which all individuals
participated in both the planning and the execution
of the plans, and the elite-planned socialist technocracies
outlined by Saint-Simon and Edward Bellamy.
If the foregoing is correct, the traditional view
that anarchism is incompatible with capitalism is clearly
incorrect. Both anarchism and capitalism traverse a
·w ide s p e c t rum oft h 0 ugh t, and wh i Ie s orne varian t s 0 f
anarchism are incompatible with some variants of capitalism,
other types are quite compatible. Moreover, the
place of the individualist anarchists in both the economic
and the political sepctrums has been pointed out,
and the initial groundwork has been laid for the study
of individualist anarchism.
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