Political Economy from Below--Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914

The intention is to illustrate the ideas of writers who might first help break the ideological hold of neo-classical economics and introduce real people and real social relations in place of its arid abstractions. [...] the continuity is clear here as it is in a principle of mutualism (Proudhon), solidarity (Bakunin), mutual aid (Kropotkin), all variations on the theme of the social development of a basic need for humans to associate for common purposes and mutual assistance.