Question about mutualism

How is healthcare, housing etc. taken care of in a mutualist society? What happens to the ones unable/unfit for labor?

Also how is this better than anarcho-communsim?

I advocate mutualism + basic income.

This is the ideological difference between "to each according to his ability" and "to each according to his need".

Holy shit that was fast.

Some other questions then:
As far as I'm concerned, currency is essentially still a thing under a mutualist society. How do we incorporate the labor theory of value + free markets with currency? How does supply/demand work?

How are corporations/collectives discouraged from resorting to potentially harmful behavior in order to stay in the market, i.e stuff like harming the environment, price gauging, etc. (basically all the things we hate capitalists for doing in order to maximize profits)

You can still have welfare programs under mutualism. It isn't incompatible. I don't think anybody would not want that for the needy. It would suck if it didn't happen.

Well conservatism would still be a thing, relatively speaking of course.

Conservatism will always be a thing.


I'm not any type of of market socialist, but I'm sure there will be regulations put in place

That was what I was thinking tbh. But how will that happen without centralization? I know mutualism supports credit unions and such but market regulations require much more complex mechanisms to regulate I suppose. Maybe something like a state, dunno.

I'm not a mutualist, but I would be guessing it could be done through a collective decision

Labor vouchers.

As far as I understand it, there is no private property besides labor time. So you reimburse others for the labor they put into a product and you get reimbursed for laboring.


Generally through lack of massive capital accumulation. I don't know how regulation works. It seems to just be completely free markets. I don't see how a market based completely on labor value could sustain itself without regulation.

What do they have ANY difference whatsoever with currency though? Is it because it's decentralized/centralized in a different way?


How the actual fuck can you do that in the big picture? In a country, or even in the world?

How the actual fuck can you do that in the big picture? In a country, or even in the world?

I don't know. I'm not a mutualist. You could maybe say the same thing about anarchism. Especially communism.

Vouchers aren't accumulated but destroyed upon a "purchase." There is no exchange of commodities involved.

I get it friendo, just trying to collectively work our brains on some issues on how can we achieve a just and equal society without oppressing and murdering 900 trillion gazzilion people

What do then credit unions give businesses to start-up their enterprise? Vouchers again?

If they're destroyed upon a purchase, it could be an economic disaster,If they're destroyed upon a purchase, that means you have to print another one, but the amount of "purchases" that would be done with these vouchers would be extremely high then, muh population, then you'd have to print tons for your people, ending in inflation.

Electronic currency exists.

what about the people who don't use internet ? muh old people ?

Those people barely exist anymore and certainly won't in the future.

What exactly would we need to regulate across the entire world under anarcho-communism? Not that I don't think there is anything, but nothing comes to mind right now.

I guess you're right
but wouldn't that be impractical though ? the average joe uses physical currency everyday in the markets and stuff, you only get the card out with entrepreneurs, not with your neighboor in a rummage sale.

I imagine phone payments becoming common soon.

but muh europoors
muh white trash