Agrarian Anarchism
Anarchist branch centered on the countryside, defending autonomous rural communities, collective ownership of land, and peasant cooperation, rejecting the state and land concentration in favor of self-management.
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In one sentence
I want autonomous rural communities with collective land, without state or large estates, organized by peasant cooperation and self-management.
Political axes
Profile across the 12 axes
- Very strong · Federal
Structure
- Very strong · Democracy
Representation
- Very strong · Liberty
Power
- Strong · Multiculturalism
Immigration
- Very strong · Pacifist
Diplomacy
- Very strong · Non-interventionist
Intervention
- Strong · Public
Economy
- Leaning · Planning
Control
- Leaning · Protectionism
Trade
- Balanced
Religion
- Leaning · Traditionalist
Morality
- Very strong · Biology
Technology
What sets this ideology apart
Structure
Leans further toward federal than 92% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Ideology median 36This ideology 95
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
Morality
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Ideology median 43This ideology 40
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
Personalities
Emiliano Zapata
A Mexican revolutionary, Zapata led peasants in the Mexican Revolution under the motto Land and Liberty, defending agrarian reform and the autonomy of rural communities against large landowners and the state.
Closest, by dimension
PoliticallyLeo TolstoyWriter96%
SociallyLeonardo BoffTheologian93%
EconomicallyThomas SankaraRevolutionary100%
Other compatible profiles
ActivismMahatma GandhiPolitical leader92%
ActivismJosé BovéActivist92%
PhilosophyMartin BuberPhilosopher92%
PoliticsAbdullah ÖcalanPolitical leader91%
PhilosophyArne NæssPhilosopher91%
Intellectual lifeNoam ChomskyLinguist and thinker91%
Political theoryJohn ZerzanPhilosopher91%
Political theoryAndré GorzPhilosopher90%
The most distant
Countries
Reference country
Anarchist Aragon and Catalonia
1936–1939During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
Other close countries
Zapatista Chiapas (Mexico)
Indigenous-communal autonomyZapatista territories in southern Mexico, self-governed since 1994 by mostly Maya communities through caracoles and Good Government Councils, rejecting political parties and the state, with cooperative agrarian economy and strong women's leadership.
Also close, by dimension
PoliticallyRojava (North and East Syria)Democratic-egalitarian confederalism89%
SociallyColombiaCatholic-pacifying republic82%
EconomicallyBelarusStatist-personalist autocracy97%
The most distant
Free Territory (Makhnovshchina)
1918–1921During the Russian Revolution, Makhno's Free Territory was an anarchist experiment in Ukraine, with self-managed peasant communes and popular militias that rejected both the White state and Bolshevik power.
Also close, by dimension
- PoliticallyAnarchist Aragon and Catalonia1936–193989%
SociallyAllende's Chile1970–197383%
EconomicallyCárdenas's Mexico1934–194098%
The most distant
Ideological proximity
Close ideologies
Closest within Anarchist
- Anarchist
Zapatismo
Neo-Zapatista movement that emerged in 1994 in southern Mexico, combining indigenous autonomy, direct democracy through assemblies and caracoles, cooperative subsistence economy, and refusal to seize state power, summed up as 'lead by obeying'.
- Anarchist
Christian Anarchism
Current that unites Christian faith with anarchism, holding that the Gospel preaches love, equality, and nonviolence incompatible with the state, and defending free communities based on conscience and charity.
- Anarchist
Anarcho-Distributism
Synthesis of anarchism and distributism that defends the wide distribution of property and small-scale production, with autonomous communities and cooperatives organized without a state or large monopolies.
Closest in other spectrums
- Left
Indigenism
Current that values indigenous peoples and their rights, defending autonomy, territory, culture, and political participation, along with development models and a plurinational state that respect their traditions.
- Left
Deep Ecology
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- Left
Syndicalism
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
The most distant ideology
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