# Free association of producers > a relationship among individuals where there is no state, social class, hierarchy, or private ownership of means of production. > > – [Free association of producers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_of_producers) > individuals are no longer deprived of access to [[means of production]], thus enabling them to freely associate without social constraint to produce and reproduce their own conditions of existence and fulfill their individual and creative needs and desires. > > – [Free association of producers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_of_producers) Seizing the means of production, basically? > Communist or “associated” production is planned and carried out by the producers and communities themselves, without the class-based intermediaries of wage-labor, market, and state > > – [[Marx's Vision of Sustainable Human Development]]