"What is Mutualism?" - my ideological Bible

I had some sort of Epiphany yesterday; I came to a t-junction on the Damascus Road.  For some reason I had never before read Clarence Lee Swartz's "What is Mutualism?" right through previously (possibly, I seem to remember, because he criticises Henry George and the Single Tax).  I got drawn in yesterday, and eventually decided that this was so representative of my ideological viewpoint now that I just had to record it as an audiobook.

Basing the idea of liberty on Spencer's formula of Equal Freedom:

That every man may claim the fullest liberty to do as he wills compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man.

...Swartz analyses several contemporary systems that have purported to offer a solution to the social problems of the day by subjecting them to two fundamental questions:

1. Will it give freedom from oppression ? Will it permit each man to live his own life as he sees fit?

2. Will it obtain for the worker the full product of his labor ? And will it abolish involuntary idleness and stimulate production?

I will likely want to write more on this in future, but since, as I read it, I found time and again Swartz writing things that I could almost myself have written word for word about my viewpoint, for now I can do little better than to recommend reading, or listening, to the whole thing to you.

Mutualism is not merely Anarchism: it is Anarchism plus a mechanism by which to begin to achieve all these desirable ends within the current system, steadily building the institutions of a free world within and beneath the coercive system we have to operate within until such a momentum is built up that shows others how we can do without the state and still achieve many of the desirable things that billions of people are still waiting, in vain, for the state to deliver.

If you are prepared to check your statist prejudices at the door I defy any true liberal to read this and not become a believer.

Attached are a pdf built from the original source website, a set of mp3 files, one for each chapter, and a single m4b file more suited for use on an iPod type device that allows for chapter breaks and bookmarks.  Do take them, convert them to whatever other format you want, and, preferably share them as widely as you like.  They are too important to stay on this backwater!

Attachment	Date	Size
Foreword, Credits, etc.mp3	22/08/10 9:15 am	2.04 MB
I - PRIVILEGE AND AUTHORITY.mp3	22/08/10 9:15 am	13.66 MB
II - PROPOSED BUT INADEQUATE REMEDIES.mp3	22/08/10 9:15 am	21.91 MB
III - THE CASE FOR FREEDOM.mp3	22/08/10 9:15 am	13.55 MB
IV - MONEY, CREDIT, INTEREST AND EXCHANGE.mp3	22/08/10 9:21 am	35.95 MB
V - MUTUALIST PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS.mp3	22/08/10 9:21 am	26.85 MB
VI - LAND AND RENT.mp3	22/08/10 9:21 am	20.94 MB
VII - SOCIAL ASPECTS.mp3	22/08/10 9:21 am	21.57 MB
VIII - EDUCATION AND THE ARTS.mp3	22/08/10 9:28 am	15.38 MB
IX - VOLUNTARY ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION -- THE CO-OPERATIVES.mp3	22/08/10 9:28 am	15.52 MB
X - METHODS OF REALIZATION.mp3	22/08/10 9:28 am	25.16 MB
What Is Mutualism - Clarence Lee Swartz1.pdf	22/08/10 9:48 am	397.37 KB
01 What is Mutualism_.m4b	22/08/10 1:06 pm	204.98 MB