The brotherhoods of free men were the expression of mutual aid. Kropotkin emphasizes that the barbarians were peace loving people who after they had setled down in their newly conquered lands left the fighting for the warriors. In present day trade unions are the heirs of medieval guilds. These are the ecpressions of the principle of mutual aid. Socialist, true socialists, who fight for liberty and democracy, trust on these institutions.
Socialism can mean only democratization of society.
It is not the burocracy which is the form of true socialism, but communityes of people made by themselves and for them selves voluntarily by inspiration of the idea of solidarity. This has not changed from the medieval period. This is a look to the history of the institutions which have fought against the central power, let it be state or monopoly capitalism, which takes its power in the form of state. In 1968 in Paris there was a real revolutionary situation. Then there was a demand for total and direct democracy.