# Free association | | Free association, also known as free association of producers, is a form relationship among individuals where there is no private ownership of the means of production. A key feature of socialist economics, it has been defined differently by different schools of socialism, entailing either the individual, collective or common ownership of the means of production. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Free association of producers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_of_producers) |