Proudhon sounds like a minimal statist except for his necessary cooperatives
for large businesses and banking. Presumably large means larger than Adam Smiths
omnipresent subcontracting can efficiently compete with.
But what of
workplace agreements moderated by unions acting as agents in enterprise
bargaining. If you allow for this and decentralise justice with arbitration
commissions [pseudo Rothbard] you have our current economic framework.
Problem is, our system is heavily weighted in capitals favour because
cooperative financing is under funded and restricted by ethics. Cooperatives are
still needed and have not been able to catch up. If Government legislated to
make capital flow ethical it would be fair. Thus capital reform can become a
path to anarchism. An obvious target is nationalising party funding. Once
we get that fair, we may have a path to reformist anarchism back.
It makes sense for capital interests to lobby [and bribe] as much sense as it does for politicians to take bribes/inside trading/quangos etc. Its called vested interests. Why pretend either side will stop unless we make it individually unprofitable for them to continue.
