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A Russian revolutionary, Bakunin was the great theorist of collectivist anarchism, opposing the state and authoritarian Marxism and defending spontaneous social revolution and the free federation of communities and workers.
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Mikhail Bakunin leans further toward federal than 97% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where Mikhail Bakunin stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Mikhail Bakunin sits practically at the catalog median.
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Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
Philosophy that rejects the state and all coercive authority, defending the free organization of society through voluntary associations, cooperation, and self-management, with freedom and equality as central values.
Synthesis of anarchist currents centered on the liberation of body and identity, uniting the critique of patriarchy and of gender and sexuality norms with an openness to technology as a tool of emancipation, all under the rejection of the state, capitalism, and every imposed hierarchy.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight28%
Italian anarchist communist, Malatesta spent decades underground and in exile organizing insurrections and workers' newspapers, advocating the abolition of the state and private property through direct action while rejecting both parliamentarism and Bolshevik dictatorship.
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An autonomous region in northern Syria, Rojava organizes itself through democratic confederalism, with local self-management, gender equality, ethnic pluralism, and ecology, inspired by the libertarian ideas of Abdullah Öcalan.
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During 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.
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