FREE ASSOCIATION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Free association

... increase is scarcely exercised at all. The condition of the laborers—as regards security of life—is almost the same as if absolute equality prevailed among them. They are deprived of all the advantages of full and free association, but their existence is not endangered in the least. With the exception of a few isolated victims of the right of property—of this misfortune whose primary cause no one perceives—the society appears ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon