This is a very good article. I enjoyed reading it immensely.

2 min readApr 3, 2021

Two things spring immediately to mind.

1.Proudhon.

Quoted and paraphrased by Kropotkin.

”Now Proudhon advocated a society without government, and

used the word Anarchy to describe it. Proudhon repudiated,

as is known, all schemes of Communism, according to which

mankind would be driven into communistic monasteries or

barracks, as also all the schemes of state or state-aided Socialism

which were advocated by Louis Blanc and the Collectivists. When

he proclaimed in his first memoir on property that ” Property

is theft,” he meant only property in its present, Roman-law,

sense of ” right of use and abuse ” ; in property-rights, on the other

hand, understood in the limited sense of possession, he saw the

best protection against the encroachments of the state. At the

same time he did not want violently to dispossess the present

owners of land, dwelling-houses, mines, factories and so on. He

preferred to attain the same end by rendering capital incapable

of earning interest; and this he proposed to obtain by means of

a national bank, based on the mutual confidence of all those who

are engaged in production, who would agree to exchange among

themselves their produces at cost-value, by means of labour

cheques representing the hours of labour required to produce

every given commodity. Under such a system, which Proudhon

described as ” Mutuellisme,” all the exchanges of services would be

strictly equivalent. Besides, such a bank would be enabled to

lend money without interest, levying only something like 1 %,

or even less, for covering the cost of administration. Every one

being thus enabled to borrow the money that would be required

to buy a house, nobody would agree to pay any more a yearly

rent for the use of it. A general ” social liquidation ” would

thus be rendered easy, without violent expropriation. The same""

And

2. The Evidence submitted by Dr Adrian Wrigley on the Written evidence submitted by the Systemic Fiscal Reform Group

Affordable Homes, A Framework of Understanding.

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