Collectivism

Collectivism is the form of anarchism associated with Michael Bakunin. The collectivist philosophy was developed by bakunin from 1864 onward when he was forming the first international organizations of anarchist the international brotherhood and the international alliance of social democracy. It was collectivist anarchism that formed the principal opposition to marxism in the international workingmens association and thus began the historic rivalry between libertarian and authoritarian views of socialism.bakunin and the other collectivists agreed with the mutualists in their rejection of the state and of political methods in their stress on federalism and in their view that the worker should be rewarded according to his labor. On the other hand they differed in stressing the need for revolutionary means to bring about the downfall of the state and the establishment of a libertarian society. Most important they advocated the public ownership and the exploitation through workers associations of the lan and all services and means of production. While in mutualism the individual worker had been the basic unit in collectivism it was the group of workers Bakunin specifically rejected individualism of any kind and maintained that anarchism was a social doctrine and must be based on the acceptance of collective responsibilities.