The Freed Workers Project

Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian geographer, revolutionary, and one of the most important advocates to anarchist communism. He believed in a stateless society, believing that the state was an unjustified institution which took workers into submission, protected private property, and became rich by exploiting people. Kropotkin's political philosophy, often termed as a form of "anarcho-communism," advocated a state of mutual aid and voluntary cooperation.

Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker (1854–1939) was a writer, an American individualist anarchist and advocate for freed markets. He believed that the state created poverty and exploitation. His four key points against the state monopolies consisted of money, patents, land, and tariffs. 

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was Russian-born and later became an egoist anarchist and anarcho communist who advocated for worker’s freedom, sexual autonomy, and access to birth control. She would embrace feminism later in her life, advocating for women's freedom. Emma Goldman believed that the state inherently was unjust because it supported wars, capitalism, maintained its structure though violence and oppression, and infringed on people’s “rights”. 

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph-Proudhon (1809–1865) was a philosopher, social thinker, and journalist. He was considered the “father of anarchism” using the term as an ideology rather than a term used to describe chaos and disorder. He advocated for a bottom-up structure where the workers owned the means of production and later incorporated the labor theory of value into his ideas and laid the groundwork for mutualism. Proudhon believed that the state was inefficient at meeting the needs of individuals envisioning a society based on worker control and decentralization.