The Mutualist Society Press
The Mutualist Society Press is space for the strategies, stories, and practical knowledge that emerges directly from our network of practice.
Collectively funded, locally grounded, with peer-to-peer accountability.
Deconstructs the idea of a press to include… whatever we want! Think poetry, collective writing exercises, and more. In short, we will make it mutual and let it emerge.
Builds a mutualist frame on policy (procurement, housing, new unionism, food cooperatives) that is politically heterodox and open.
Why The Mutualist Society Press?
Mutualism is a needed antidote - right now.
Artificial intelligence and the scramble for rare earth minerals have accelerated a sense of dislocation. The familiar economic frames - whether free markets or centralized states - no longer seem adequate to the challenge. What we need is something both older and newer: mutualism.
Mutualism is not utopia. It has been the practical work of building institutions that make life livable in unsettled times: cooperative housing, affordable food systems, humane health care, mutual banks and insurance companies, and mutual aid networks for well over 100 years. It is rooted in reciprocity and conviviality, in the recognition that people do best when they have practical ways to rely on one another.
The Mutualist Society Press is part of that work. It will not be owned by billionaires, dynasties, or foundations. It will be collectively funded, locally grounded, and designed for many to own. Its purpose is simple but radical: to organize the audience that cares about mutualist ideas, policy and strategies emerging from practice, sustained by communities that need things to work - and work well.