What economic decision making criteria could be used in anarchy?
Firstly, it should be noted that anarchists do not have any set idea about the answer to this question. Most anarchists are communists, desiring to see the end of the wages system but that does not mean they want to impose communism onto people. Far from it, communism can only be truly libertarian if it is organised from the bottom up. So, anarchists would agree with Kropotkin that it is a case of not “determining in advance what form of distribution the producers should accept in their different groups – whether the communist solution, or labor checks, or equal salaries, or any other method” [Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets, p. 166] while considering a given solution best in their opinion. Free experiment is a key aspect of anarchism. However, we will outline some possible means of economic decision making criteria as this question is an important one (it is the crux of the “libertarian socialism is impossible” argument for example). Therefore, we will indicate what possible solut
