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[–] cacheson@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I prefer mutualism to Georgism, but I prefer either to capitalism. ¯\(ツ)

[–] jlou@mastodon.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I am a mutualist as well. I just use the term, economic democracy as David Ellerman calls it, instead because mutualism doesn't seem as clear. Also, mutualism has anarchist connotations, which I am sympathetic to, but I believe the movement to abolish capitalism should be broader than anarchism.

In other words,

anarchist economic democracy = mutualism

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[–] cacheson@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's fair. I think it's important to promote anarchism too, but it is a harder sell.

Overall, I think we just need to remind people that political and economic hierarchies are mutually reinforcing, and keep pushing things in a libertarian-ish direction.