Update from Mutualism Co-op
To our comrades and supporters:
Those of you who follow us regularly or even just checked in on the site this year will no doubt have realized that we have not updated any of modern, historical, or media items since last year. There’s two general reasons for this. The first is that the members of the co-op just have so much going on in our personal lives—work, family, medical needs. The second is that there is simply so much non-online work to be done to resist of the rise of right-wing authoritarianism across the globe. Rest assured, mutualists are out there with other anarchists, libertarians, progressives, socialists, communists, and other rebels fighting against fascism at every turn—whether it wears the trappings of Hoppean “libertarianism,” Stalinist “communism,” or Trumpist populism.
Due to these realities, Mutualism Co-op is now on an indefinite hiatus. However, the work of mutualism continues on. Start your own co-op! Sell goods on the black market! Print your own local currency! Join your branch of the IWW! Download free media and software! Despite the threats we face, a future built on solidarity and mutual exchange is still possible. It already exists in the shadows as the counter-economy and the solidarity of civil society. It only needs to be expanded and protected.
Our final update for now is that though we have decided to move on from this project, we are currently looking for trusted folks to take over Mutualism Co-op in order to continue its output. If you know us and are interested, reach out to us.
Solidarity forever,
Eric F, Shane, Joel, and Rai Ling
“All men are equal and free: society, by nature and destination, is thus autonomous, one might say, ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of labor and the choice one makes of a profession, social functions are combined so as to produce an effect of harmony, and the order results from the free action of all; there is no government. Whosoever lays a hand on me in order to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.”
-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “The Nature and Destination of Government” (1849)